Join us Thursday, May 11th, 2023 at 6:00 PM for Shailja Patel and Andrew Solomon Presentations.
Shailja Patel, Writing,Kenya/USA, (she/her)
Shailja Patel is a queer feminist internationalist from Kenya. She is the author of the international bestseller Migritude, which is currently taught in over 150 colleges and universities worldwide. Migritude was shortlisted for the Premio Letterario di Camaiore. Patel’s poems have been translated into 17 languages. She represented Kenya at the London Cultural Olympiad’s Poetry Parnassus. The African Women’s Development Fund named Patel one of Fifty Inspirational African Feminists, and the Nobel Women’s Initiative honored her with a Global Feminist Spotlight.
Andrew Solomon*, Writing, USA/UK, (he/him)
Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia; a Lecturer in Psychology at Yale; past President of PEN America; a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; and an activist in LGBT rights and mental health. He writes for The New Yorker and the New York Times. His books include Far and Away; New Family Values (audiobook); Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He also made a film of Far from the Tree.
*Director’s Guest
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
Welcome cocktail at 6:00 PM
Presentations begin at 6:15 PM
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