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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lahey with Mary Laura Philpott - The Addiction Inoculation (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:In this supportive\, life-saving resource\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure helps parents and educators understand the roots of substance abuse and identify who is most at risk for addiction\, and offers practical steps for prevention. \nJessica Lahey was born into a family with a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse. Despite her desire to thwart her genetic legacy\, she became an alcoholic and didn’t find her way out until her early forties. Jessica has worked as a teacher in substance abuse programs for teens\, and was determined to inoculate her two adolescent sons against their most dangerous inheritance. All children\, regardless of their genetics\, are at some risk for substance abuse. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse\, teen drug addiction is the nation’s largest preventable and costly health problem. Despite the existence of proven preventive strategies\, nine out of ten adults with substance use disorder report they began drinking and taking drugs before age eighteen. \nThe Addiction Inoculation is a comprehensive resource parents and educators can use to prevent substance abuse in children. Based on research in child welfare\, psychology\, substance abuse\, and developmental neuroscience\, this essential guide provides evidence-based strategies and practical tools adults need to understand\, support\, and educate resilient\, addiction-resistant children. The guidelines are age-appropriate and actionable—from navigating a child’s risk for addiction\, to interpreting signs of early abuse\, to advice for broaching difficult conversations with children. \nThe Addiction Inoculation is an empathetic\, accessible resource for anyone who plays a vital role in children’s lives—parents\, teachers\, coaches\, or pediatricians—to help them raise kids who will grow up healthy\, happy\, and addiction-free. \nJessica Lahey writes about education\, parenting\, and child welfare for The Washington Post\, the New York Times\, and The Atlantic and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book\, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. She is a member of the Amazon Studios Thought Leader Board and wrote the curriculum for Amazon Kids’ The Stinky and Dirty Show. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two sons. \nMary Laura Philpott is the author of I Miss You When I Blink\, the nationally bestselling memoir-in-essays. Her writing has been featured frequently by The New York Times and also appears in such outlets as The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Paris Review Daily\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Real Simple
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SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nDo you remember the first real challenge you faced as an adult? When you looked around and realized\, “This problem is completely on me to solve\, and there’s no one around who will point the way. What will I do to handle it?” \nIn a memoir and guidebook for young adults who are starting out and working their way up\, bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims of How to Raise An Adult offers a roadmap to early adulthood called Your Turn: How to Be An Adult. This book is for the emerging early adult ages 18-35. From your earliest “Oh wow\, how am I going to handle this?” adulting moment and onward\, this smart\, funny and frank author offers solidarity to her younger self and to any person just beginning to build a future. Turns out\, crafting a confident adulthood is not an easy\, one-time task\, and it takes a long time to stick the landing. \n\n\n\n\nJulie offers guideposts for the new adulthood. No longer are a marriage and a lifelong job the “be all end all” of your adult years. Crafting a life for yourself today looks a lot more complex. Real estate prices and a pandemic may have you living with parents—but within that scope\, you can still craft a mature independence. Your career path may include several jobs\, instead of a single five-decade career with pension—and yet there is still a way to build continuity in your work. With respect for how the world has changed\, Lythcott-Haims offers something that any modern early adult will appreciate: good guidance\, respect\, and advice that doesn’t assume a one-size-fits-all approach to adulthood. This is the nitty gritty support we all wish we had. \n\n\n\n\nThe former Stanford dean shares all this and more in a webinar interview and hour-long conversation with Adam Smiley Poswolsky\, millennial workplace expert and author of The Quarter Life Breakthrough and the forthcoming Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Join two experts—one who has been there\, and one still in the thick of crafting modern adulthood—as they discuss what it takes to build a powerful life for yourself in 2021. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims-with-adam-smiley-poswolsky/
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SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nDo you remember the first real challenge you faced as an adult? When you looked around and realized\, “This problem is completely on me to solve\, and there’s no one around who will point the way. What will I do to handle it?” \nIn a memoir and guidebook for young adults who are starting out and working their way up\, bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims of How to Raise An Adult offers a roadmap to early adulthood called Your Turn: How to Be An Adult. This book is for the emerging early adult ages 18-35. From your earliest “Oh wow\, how am I going to handle this?” adulting moment and onward\, this smart\, funny and frank author offers solidarity to her younger self and to any person just beginning to build a future. Turns out\, crafting a confident adulthood is not an easy\, one-time task\, and it takes a long time to stick the landing. \n\n\n\n\nJulie offers guideposts for the new adulthood. No longer are a marriage and a lifelong job the “be all end all” of your adult years. Crafting a life for yourself today looks a lot more complex. Real estate prices and a pandemic may have you living with parents—but within that scope\, you can still craft a mature independence. Your career path may include several jobs\, instead of a single five-decade career with pension—and yet there is still a way to build continuity in your work. With respect for how the world has changed\, Lythcott-Haims offers something that any modern early adult will appreciate: good guidance\, respect\, and advice that doesn’t assume a one-size-fits-all approach to adulthood. This is the nitty gritty support we all wish we had. \n\n\n\n\nThe former Stanford dean shares all this and more in a webinar interview and hour-long conversation with Adam Smiley Poswolsky\, millennial workplace expert and author of The Quarter Life Breakthrough and the forthcoming Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Join two experts—one who has been there\, and one still in the thick of crafting modern adulthood—as they discuss what it takes to build a powerful life for yourself in 2021. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Hoa Nguyen with Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:Hoa Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection \nA Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure \npublished by Wave Books \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nA poetic meditation on historical\, personal\, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” with verse biography on the poet’s mother\, Diệp Anh Nguyễn\, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered\, plaintive\, and provocative\, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. By turns lyrical and unsettling\, Hoa Nguyen’s poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time\, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts. \nHoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry\, including A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave\, forthcoming 2021)\, As Long As Trees Last\, Red Juice\, and Violet Energy Ingots\, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry\, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry\, and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions\, including Princeton University\, Bard College\, Poet’s House\, and the Banff Centre’s Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination\, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour\, Granta\, The Walrus\, New York Times\, and Poetry\, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States\, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011. \nGarrett Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (2010)\, Retrievals (2014)\, and Power Ballads (2016). He is an editor at City Lights Books\, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. Caples was also a contributing writer to theSan Francisco Bay Guardian and has coedited the Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013)\, Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore\, and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima. He makes his home in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hoa-nguyen-with-garrett-caples/
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SUMMARY:Bettye Kearse - The Other Madisons (Book Discussion & Film Screening)
DESCRIPTION:In The Other Madisons\, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and\, according to oral tradition\, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy\, race\, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.  \n \nFor thousands of years\, West African griots (men) and griottes (women) have recited the stories of their people. Without this tradition Bettye Kearse would not have known that she is a descendant of President James Madison and his slave\, and half-sister\, Coreen. In 1990\, Bettye became the eighth-generation griotte for her family. Their credo—“Always remember—you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president”—was intended to be a source of pride\, but for her\, it echoed with abuses of slavery\, including rape and incest. \nConfronting those abuses\, Bettye embarked on a journey of discovery—of her ancestors\, the nation\, and herself. She learned that wherever African slaves walked\, recorded history silenced their voices and buried their footsteps: beside a slave-holding fortress in Ghana; below a federal building in New York City; and under a brick walkway at James Madison’s Virginia plantation. When Bettye tried to confirm the information her ancestors had passed down\, she encountered obstacles at every turn. \nPart personal quest\, part testimony\, part historical correction\, The Other Madisons is the saga of an extraordinary American family told by a griotte in search of the whole story.\nAbout the Author \nBettye Kearse is a writer and retired pediatrician. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Herald\, TIME Magazine\, River Teeth\, Zora\, and the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered\, among other places. The Other Madisons received the International Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Book Award for Nonfiction\, Autobiography. Her research for The Other Madisons was covered in the Washington Post. She lives in New Mexico. \nEduardo Montes-Bradley creates films with a transcendent documentary style. He has been awarded multiple distinctions for his photography of the descendants of the enslaved community. His biographical portrayal of Civil Rights activist Julian Bond was presented at the Royal Academy in London. \n  \nBettye Kearse photo by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bettye-kearse-the-other-madisons-book-discussion-film-screening/
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SUMMARY:Launch for Natalie Baszile / We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy\, with Konda Mason
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Natalie Baszile for her book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy. She’ll be in conversation with Konda Mason. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order We Are Each Other’s Harvest here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn this impressive anthology\, Natalie Baszile brings together essays\, poems\, photographs\, quotes\, conversations\, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s\, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45\,000. Baszile explores this crisis\, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words\, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The “Returning Generation”—young farmers\, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors\, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice\, food sovereignty\, and reparations. \nThese farmers are joined by other influential voices\, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel\, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford\, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty\, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives\, adding richness and texture\, as well as stunning four-color photographs from photographers Alison Gootee and Malcom Williams\, and Baszile’s personal collection. \nAs Baszile reveals\, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family\, the way our national identity is bound up with the land\, the pull of memory\, the healing power of food\, and race relations. She reminds us that the land\, well-earned and fiercely protected\, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended\, tilled\, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color\, celebrating their perseverance and resilience\, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening\, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil. \nAbout the authors\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. \nKonda Mason is a social entrepreneur\, finance activist\, earth and social justice activist and mindfulness teacher. She is the Co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice\, Inc\, a nonprofit working to bring climate resilient farming and economic equity to Black farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land ownership and stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes transformational learning journeys across race and class exploring conversations at the intersection of Land\, Race\, Money & Spirit. She is also the Co-founder and VP of Potlikker Capital\, a next economy loan fund specially designed to deploy integrated capital to Black American farmers. \nKonda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Emerge Oakland)\, an award winning co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of RUNWAY\, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs\, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland\, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap\, restorative economics and the next economy just transition. \nAlong with her partner\, actor Woody Harrleson\, Konda opened the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and was responsible for negotiating the first organic food section in a major supermarket in the area. Ms. Mason holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Commonweal Institute and has an honorary MBA from Presidio Graduate School of Business. She teaches mindfulness at retreat centers throughout the U.S.A. \nKonda sits on the Board of Directors of The Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis\, TN\, On Being with Krista Tippett\, One Generation with Paul Hawken\, Lion’s Roar Magazine\, and is a Trustee at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-natalie-baszile-we-are-each-others-harvest-celebrating-african-american-farmers-land-and-legacy-with-konda-mason/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, APRIL 6 AT 6PM PT WHEN SANJENA SATHIAN JOINS US FOR THE LAUNCH OF HER NOVEL\, GOLD DIGGERS\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83436765824\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83436765824#  or +12532158782\,\,83436765824#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kch8N18RIF \nPraise for Gold Diggers \n“In a perfect alchemical blend of familiar and un-\, Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story\, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire\, and creates a world that’s both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive. Written with such assurance it’s hard to believe it’s Sanjena Sathian’s debut\, this is a dizzyingly original\, fiercely funny\, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers—and dangers—of borrowed ambition.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \n“A refreshing tweak of the assimilation novel…Sathian artfully and convincingly conjures [this] world…Sathian has a knack for page-turner prose\, but the story has plenty of heft. A winningly revamped King Midas tale.” —Kirkus \n“Dazzling…the sharp characterizations bring humor and contemplation in equal measure\, touching on the pressures Neil and Anita face to produce a legacy that honors their parents’ sacrifices. Sathian’s bildungsroman isn’t one to miss.” —Publishers Weekly \nAbout Gold Diggers \nA brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talent. \nSpanning two continents\, two coasts\, and four epochs\, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative\, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor sharp and deeply funny prose\, Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family\, of a diaspora\, and of the American meritocracy. This blockbuster novel both entertains and levels a critique of what Americans of color must do to make their way. \nA floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs\, Neil Narayan is authentic\, funny\, and smart. He just doesn’t share the same drive as everyone around him. His perfect older sister is headed to Duke. His parents’ expectations for him are just as high. He tries to want this version of success\, but mostly\, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac\, Anita Dayal. \nBut Anita has a secret: she and her mother Anjali have been brewing an ancient alchemical potion from stolen gold that harnesses the ambition of the jewelry’s original owner. Anjali’s own mother in Bombay didn’t waste the precious potion on her daughter\, favoring her sons instead. Anita\, on the other hand\, just needs a little boost to get into Harvard. But when Neil—who needs a whole lot more—joins in the plot\, events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. \nTen years later\, Neil is an oft-stoned Berkeley history grad student studying the California gold rush. His high school cohort has migrated to Silicon Valley\, where he reunites with Anita and resurrects their old habit of gold theft—only now\, the stakes are higher. Anita’s mother is in trouble\, and only gold can save her. Anita and Neil must pull off one last heist. \nGold Diggers is a fine-grained\, profoundly intelligent\, and bitingly funny investigation in to questions of identity and coming of age—that tears down American shibboleths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sanjena-sathian/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Natalie Baszile / We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy\, with Konda Mason
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Natalie Baszile for her book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy. She’ll be in conversation with Konda Mason. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order We Are Each Other’s Harvest here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn this impressive anthology\, Natalie Baszile brings together essays\, poems\, photographs\, quotes\, conversations\, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s\, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45\,000. Baszile explores this crisis\, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words\, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The “Returning Generation”—young farmers\, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors\, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice\, food sovereignty\, and reparations. \nThese farmers are joined by other influential voices\, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel\, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford\, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty\, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives\, adding richness and texture\, as well as stunning four-color photographs from photographers Alison Gootee and Malcom Williams\, and Baszile’s personal collection. \nAs Baszile reveals\, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family\, the way our national identity is bound up with the land\, the pull of memory\, the healing power of food\, and race relations. She reminds us that the land\, well-earned and fiercely protected\, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended\, tilled\, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color\, celebrating their perseverance and resilience\, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening\, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil. \nAbout the authors\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. \nKonda Mason is a social entrepreneur\, finance activist\, earth and social justice activist and mindfulness teacher. She is the Co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice\, Inc\, a nonprofit working to bring climate resilient farming and economic equity to Black farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land ownership and stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes transformational learning journeys across race and class exploring conversations at the intersection of Land\, Race\, Money & Spirit. She is also the Co-founder and VP of Potlikker Capital\, a next economy loan fund specially designed to deploy integrated capital to Black American farmers. \nKonda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Emerge Oakland)\, an award winning co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of RUNWAY\, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs\, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland\, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap\, restorative economics and the next economy just transition. \nAlong with her partner\, actor Woody Harrleson\, Konda opened the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and was responsible for negotiating the first organic food section in a major supermarket in the area. Ms. Mason holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Commonweal Institute and has an honorary MBA from Presidio Graduate School of Business. She teaches mindfulness at retreat centers throughout the U.S.A. \nKonda sits on the Board of Directors of The Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis\, TN\, On Being with Krista Tippett\, One Generation with Paul Hawken\, Lion’s Roar Magazine\, and is a Trustee at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-natalie-baszile-we-are-each-others-harvest-celebrating-african-american-farmers-land-and-legacy-with-konda-mason/
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SUMMARY:Launch of Girl Warriors With Author Rachel Sarah
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, April 6\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online book launch of GIRL WARRIORS: HOW 25 ACTIVISTS ARE SAVING THE EARTH with author Rachel Sarah. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83371714301. \n(Preorder your copy of  GIRL WARRIORS at http://bit.ly/ggpGirlWarriors.) \nDescription\n\n“It gives me true hope to read about the phenomenal young women of Girl Warriors. Their fierce commitment to the future of our precious planet is as inspiring as it is vital.” —Kate Schatz\, New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide  \nInterviews with 25 young eco-activists present a hopeful picture of the future of environmentalism  \nGirl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth tells the stories of 25 climate leaders under age 25. They’ve led hundreds of thousands of people in climate strikes\, founded non-profits\, given TED talks\, and sued their governments. \nThese fearless girls and young women from all over the world are standing up to demand change when no one else is.  \nAbout the Author\n\nRachel Sarah is a writer and journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has been published in places like the Washington Post\, New York Times\, Parents\, and Common Sense Media. She has appeared on The Today Show\, CNN\, ABC\, and CBS news. She has spoken to audiences at the JCC\, UC Berkeley\, and the Commonwealth Club. Rachel is one of the founding editors of Literary Mama and has worked to support other women writers. She shifted the focus of her writing to the climate during the devastating California wildfires of 2018. She’s also the mother of two incredible daughters who are twelve years apart. Visit her online at RachelSarah.com. \nPraise For…\n\n“A powerful collection of hopeful\, diverse\, and fearless voices that ignites readers to dream loud\, think big\, take action\, and make change.” —Mae Respicio\, award-winning author of The House That Lou Built  \n  \n“This collection spotlighting the fierce and fearless leadership of 25 junior climate activists will inspire humans of all ages to rise up for a better world.” —Rebecca Woolf\, author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ok-launch-of-girl-warriors-with-author-rachel-sarah/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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