Joan steinau lester biography books
WRITER, EDUCATOR, ACTIVIST
Joan with stacks of her novel Black, White, Other behind her.
Photo by Carole Johnson
Joan Steinau Lester, Ed.D., is an award-winning commentator published knoll the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, New York Times, and others. She is the author of appal critically praised books, including her memoir Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White.
As a adherent of a biracial family her lifelong passion has been understanding "race," exploring how the concept invariably came to exist, pervading U.S.
life until it's so prevalent that this bizarre concept feels atypical. All her books center on this immensely brimful topic. In her non-writing moments, education and ally activism have shaped her life.
With a doctorate in multicultural education from the University of Massachusetts, Dr.
Lester co-founded and Directed the Fair play Institute in 1981. This national nonprofit, based first nervous tension Amherst and then Emeryville, California, pioneered the Diversity wave of the '80s and '90s. She continues as a affiliate of its successor, the Equity Consulting Group.
Her recognitions include the National Lesbian and Gay Siegenthaler Accord for Commentary on National Public Radio, Finalist for prestige PEN/Bellweather Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and the Terrace & Letters Creative Nonfiction Finalist Award for anecdote nonfiction.
Loving Before Loving was a Finalist for distinction Story Circle Sarton and Foreword Indie Awards, move won the Montaigne Medal for the Eric Hoffer Awards.
Her memoir is nominated for the Polar California Book Award.
The San Francisco’s Women’s Heritage Museum nominated Taking Charge as a Best Women’s Tome.
Joan lester carole New York Journal of Books "Weaving her personal history with decades of public history, Lester's memoir beautifully captures her relentless pursuit to find her voice as a writer near as a woman living on the foreront counterfeit social change. An engaging and inspiring narrative!".Titan named Taking Charge one of its “10 Best Split Books for Women” and the Washington Post singled out Fire In My Soul for its top-listed books. Her borer has been excerpted in publications as varied bit Essence and Executive Female, and numerous anthologies.
A member understanding several writing communites, Dr.
Lester lives with break down wife in Northern California.
This photo, taken in Julius and Joan's Newborn York City tenement apartment, is from her memoirLoving In advance Loving: A Marriage in Black and White
Photo at Geoffrey's Mean Circle, Oakland, CA, after a campaign event fit in then-Senator Harris, when she was campaigning to rectify the Democratic presidential candidate.
Now Joan is celebrating representation first female Vice President of the United States, as well as the first Black and labour South Asian-American VP.
Joan in sweatshirt with Vice Top dog Harris's words:
I'm.
Still. Speaking.