Michael Braga will discuss rising violence and deplorable conditions in Florida’s state-run mental hospitals. He will show evidence of what patients need and how psychotropic drugs change characters for good and for bad.

Michael Braga is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist at the Sarasota Herald Tribune. He has more than two decades of reporting experience, including business journals and business dailies in Florida, Argentina and Venezuela.

Mr. Braga serves as Investigations Editor for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, a 90,000 circulation metro-daily newspaper owned by GateHouse Media. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 and won the award in 2016 for his work exposing neglect and violence in Florida mental hospitals. Prior, he served as Deputy Business Editor and held posts as a staff writer at the Herald-Tribune, as well as several other business papers. Further, he spent two years working as a journalist in Argentina and a year in Venezuela. He has a B.A. in history from Duke University and a M.A. in economics from the University of Texas.

Mr. Braga will be sharing the work for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.

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