Mallika Chopra, media entrepreneur and published author, will be the next speaker to visit Fresno State for the President’s Lecture Series.

Mallika is the author of eight books, including "Living With Intent - My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace and Joy". In this book, Mallika shares insights she gained while seeking meaning and balance as a mom and entrepreneur who felt she was overwhelmed by work, family and too many responsibilities.

As the daughter of the meditation and mindfulness pioneer Deepak Chopra, Mallika brings these habits to children in her Just Be Series - Just Breathe, Just Feel, and Just Be You - a trilogy of illustrated how-to books for children (and the adults in their lives). These books provide simple tools to understand and support social and emotional knowing, resilience, meditation, mindfulness and self-reflection.

Her lecture ‘Living with Intent’ will take place at 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 18, at the Resnick Student Union. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. A livestream option is also available.

The event is free and open to the public. To register to attend or receive the livestream link, visit president.fresnostate.edu/presidents-lecture-series.html.

The President’s Lecture Series began in 2016 and features prominent national guests invited to campus by the president. Other national figures who have participated are New York Times columnist David Brooks, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, Washington Post journalist Robert Costa, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media Steve Forbes, and psychologist and author of Grit Angela Duckworth.

This year’s lecture is hosted in collaboration with Fresno State’s M.K. Gandhi Center.

For more information or for disability accommodations, contact the Office of the President at 559.278.0178 or events@mail.fresnostate.edu.