The Friends of the Mattapoisett Library’s will welcome independent journalist, photographer and professor Cheryl Hatch to speak on July 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the library.

Hatch will present “Let This Ebola End” about her recent trip to Liberia, where she documented the humanitarian efforts by Liberians and members of the U.S. military during the Ebola outbreak. She received a grant for her work from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Her articles have been published in VICE News, Foreign Policy, San Francisco Chronicle and the LA Review of Books. Hatch has worked also worked in Somalia, Iraq, Eritrea and Afghanistan, reporting on war and its effects on soldiers, their families and those in the crossfire. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Smithsonian, the Sony Gallery in Cairo, Egypt and at the Leica Gallery in Solms, Germany. Her work has also been published in newspapers and magazines, including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and Paris Match.

The lecture is part of the Friends annual meeting. A brief business meeting will be held before Hatch speaks. All are invited.