Witness the remarkable stories of three women who survived war, abuse, terrorism and incarceration, each carving out her own powerful path to healing. Their journeys illustrate the resilience of the human spirit and the capacity to rebuild in the aftermath of profound adversity.
| Where: | Student Union Tucson Room (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction |
| Moderator: | Heather Severson |
Mimi Nichter is an award-winning cultural anthropologist and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona. A Margaret Mead award recipient, she authored "Fat Talk: What Girls and their Parents Say about Dieting," as well as the recent released "Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma and Resilience," written about her being held as a hostage in Jordan in 1970....
A brilliant linguist, devout patriot, voracious reader and fitness and yoga instructor from south Texas, Reality Winner was 25 and a U.S. Air Force veteran working at NSA when she leaked a classified document that indicated that Russia had interfered with the 2016 U....
Atash Yaghmaian is the author of “My Name Means Fire.” She is a writer and a psychotherapist whose stories and articles about mental health and Iran have appeared in LitHub, Ms. magazine, The New York Daily News, The Mighty, and Thrive Global among others....
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