Ashley Judd, a celebrated actress and global humanitarian, will be featured in the concluding Guilford College Bryan Series program on Tuesday, April 8, at the Tanger Center.

The event is at 7:30 pm, and tickets are available online and at the Tanger Center box office. Guilford students, faculty, staff and retirees can request free admission by completing registration using this online form.

The title of the program is “Mental Health & Wellness: Trauma That We Don't Transform, We Transfer,” and Ashley will be in conversation with Julie Luck, who anchors evening newscasts on WFMY-TV 2 in Greensboro.

Ashley is a Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated actress. She has starred in indie gems and box office hits including such films as “Kiss the Girls,” “Where the Heart Is,” “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” and “De-Lovely.” 

A global humanitarian, in 2019, the United Nations honored Ashley as Global Advocate of the Year. She was a TIME magazine Person of the Year in 2017 as one of the #MeToo “Silence Breakers.” Her 2011 New York Times bestselling book, All That Is Bitter & Sweet, chronicles her journeys. 

Her 2016 TEDWomen talk about online misogyny has over 2 million views. And in 2022, Ashley wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about her beloved mother Naomi Judd’s death by suicide and the need for privacy laws in such tragedies.

The Bryan Series has been presented as a subscription program for 20 years, the last four at Tanger Center.