Three authors talk about writing young adult novels based on their experiences with gang life in Jamaica, their battles with depression in Ciudad Juarez and dealing with ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Their stories reflect the challenges of maintaining hope within a world that is often unfair.
| Where: | Stocker Foundation Children/Teen Stage (Seats 1000) |
| When: | Sat, Mar 6, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  Watch broadcast |
| Genre: | Children / Teens |
| Moderator: | Charlene Mendoza |
Desmond Hall was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and moved to Jamaica, Queens. He has worked as a high school biology and English teacher in East New York, Brooklyn, counseled teenage ex-cons after their release from Rikers Island and served as Spike Lee's creative director at Spike DDB....
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess grew up in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1,100 days under the Serbs’ military siege, she emigrated to the United States in 1996....
Born and raised in Ciudad Juárez, México, Alessandra Narváez Varela earned a B.S. in biology and an M.F.A. from the Bilingual Creative Writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she is currently a creative writing instructor....
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