Coffee Hour-Images of Haiti: Stories of Strength 3/19
Date: Saturday, March 19th/2011
La Conexión de las Américas (a merger of Resource Center of The Americas and La Conexión)
From 10:00am to 11:45am
Language: English
Description
Troubled by the tremendous gap between media’s focus on negative images (poverty, illiteracy, corruption despair), she has published Images of Haiti: Stories of Strength (bi-lingual Creole and English) portraying the life journeys of moms and dads, teachers, artisans, farmers, students, masons and others in rural mountain villages of Haiti.
Ruth Anne has visited Haiti numerous times since 2007, most recently in November 2010. The stories of Haitian people, and the hope they represent for the future of Haiti, will be the focus of her presentation.
Biography
Ruth Anne Olson is a retired local educator whose career focused on issues of diversity and racism in education. Over several decades, her writings about education and, more recently about Haiti, have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and in academic and popular journals and magazines.
Contact
Ruth Anne Olson
Email: olson248@gmail.com
Phone: 612-377-5717
Facilitator
Name coming soon!
