CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will speak at Syracuse University on April 24 at 7 p.m. in in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium.

Tickets will be available for $2 at the Student Schine Box Office on Wednesday. Cooper is coming as part of Truth Be Told conversation, an annual event hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha. The fraternity is hosting the event in collaboration with the SU chapter of National Association of Black Journalists, said Kelvin Sherman, president of the SU chapter of NABJ.

The event will be in the Q&A format, allowing Cooper to take questions from moderators, audience members and social media, Sherman said.

Sherman added that the NABJ and Alpha Phi Alpha began filling out the paper work early on in the fall semester to bring Cooper to SU. They received confirmation that Cooper would come in February, he said.

Sherman said he hopes students will take away how Cooper is a normal person, but at the same time learn from such a high-profile person in communications.

“I want people to see how much of a person he is,” he said. “He’s a champion of true journalism and also of muckraking reporting, where he wants to get the story out and he’s advocating for people and what’s right.”