WRAL.com: May 23. 8:30 a.m. ELLEN GOODMAN-CONFERENCE SPEECH — Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman, who is director of The Conversation Project, a national initiative dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care, will be one of the keynote speakers at Bringing Advance Care Planning to Life: New Initiatives for North Carolina, a conference for physicians, nurses, social workers, clergy and other professionals who have an interest in advance care planning. The conference is not open to the public.