Authors and Participants 
Kira Lynne Allen is founder, facilitator and author of Write This Second; her poetic memoir meant to sound an alarm that both reveals and disrupts the roots of rape culture. Where she comes from poetry is an urgent, truth-telling, visceral art, filled with cadence and intuition...
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Jeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist, mental health advocate and proud Oakland native. At KALW, she covers East Oakland and hosts the arts segment Sights & Sounds. Jenee blogs at CocoaFly.com. Her book, When a Purple Rose Blooms, is about her experience with mental health...
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Natalie Devora writes about race and identity. She is the author of Black Girl White Skin: A Life In Stories. She is a 2019 featured author through American Association of University Women, AAUW, Alameda CA. She is an albinism activist, raising awareness through storytelling.
Dr. Adrienne Danyelle Oliver, MFA, EdD, is a writer and educator living in Oakland, CA. She is published in Storytelling, Self & Society (Wayne State University Press 2018), is a VONA fellow, and leads a virtual writing and healing circle for Black women.
Kelechi Ubozoh is a nationally recognized Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate whose story is featured in The S Word documentary, O Magazine, CBS This Morning with Gayle King, and Good Morning America. She runs MoonDrop Productions, a quarterly Bay Area reading series...
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