EVENTS 2020
WOMEN IN COLLEGE SPORTS PANEL
JUNE 2020
Join UConn Alumni, Faith Dismuke, Batouly Camara, Nyanka Joseph, and Katherine Surin in a talk about the college athlete experience and work-life balance. Register on Eventbrite
JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD PROTEST
JUNE 2020
The Black Lives Matter movement is more than the murder of one man. It is a stand against the continuous oppression and injustice against black people.
BLACK WOMEN READ IG LIVE INTERVIEW
MAY 2020
I will be talking about the inspiration of my novel with Jazze on IG Live on her @blackwomenread_ page
HEAR HER SPORTS PODCAST
MAY 2020
It was a pleasure discussing my novel with Elizabeth on her podcast @hearhersports
ATHLETE QUARANTINE CONFERENCE
MAY 2020
It was a pleasure discussing student-athlete development during COVID19.
SPRINT DREAMS Chapter Reading
APRIL 2020
Join Faith Dismuke on Instagram for an exclusive reading of the upcoming college set, young adult one, SPRINT DREAMS
APRIL 11, 2020- Chapter 2
APRIL 18, 2020- Chapter 3
APRIL 25, 2020- Chapter 4
Books, Brunch and Black Women Virtual Brunch
MARCH 2020
It was a pleasure speaking to fellow book lovers about a favorite book of mine, Queenie by Candice Carthy-Williams.
Rainbow Rowell Book Signing at Writer's Block Bookstore
JANUARY 2020
It was a pleasure meeting Rainbow Rowell, the author of the older young adult, college set novel, Fangirl
Nic Stone Writer Workshop at Orange County Library
JANUARY 2020
It was a pleasure meeting Nic Stone, the author of the bestseller teen novel Dear Martin and Jackpot.
EVENTS 2019
SPRINT SERIES, MONTVERDE ACADEMY, MONTVERDE, FL
JULY 6, 2019
It was great meeting some of the best international track and field athletes. Follow these lovely athlete:
Pariis Garcia, Team Puerto Rico, @pariis_alysia
Jordan Lavender, Team USA, @doitlikejlav
Vanessa Clerveaux, Team Haiti, @vava_veaux
Pleasure on the Island w/The Free Black Women's Library
July 2019
Join the Free Black Women's Library at MoCADA House on Governors Island for a pleasure filled day of book swapping and conversation.The day will be spent discussing Adrienne Marie Brown's groundbreaking new book - PLEASURE ACTIVISM/The Politics of Feeling Good. In this book Adrienne gives tools and exercises on how not only to conjure pleasure in our lives but how we can use it as an organizing strategy for social justice and liberation.All are welcome!!
#OutWrite
August 2019
#OutWrite 2019, WASHINGTON, D.C.
OutWrite is DC’s annual LGBTQ literary festival.
16th Annual Caribbean Health Summit
September 2019
It was a pleasure representing NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) in Orlando, FL
Well Read Black Girl Festival 2019
November 2019
Well-Read Black Girl is a book club dedicated to Black women writers. Our goal is to introduce a cohort of diverse writers to future generations contemporary authors who are non-binary, queer, trans, and disabled. It was an honor meeting author Elizabeth Acevedo and poet and Jamaican LGBT activist Stacey-Ann Chin at St. Francis College in Brooklyn NYC.
Candice Carthy Williams at Books Are Magic
November 2019
It was an honor meeting Candice Carty-Williams in Brooklyn NYC. Candice Carty-Williams is an author, book marketer, and sometime journalist based in south London. She contributes regularly to i-D, Refinery29, BEAT Magazine, and more, and her pieces, especially those about blackness, sex, and identity, have been shared globally. Queenie is her first novel. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @CandiceC_W.
