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Mallory Smith: A Reading from her Memoir by Diane Smith

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland

Mallory Smith, who grew up in Los Angeles, was a freelance writer and editor specializing in environmental issues, social justice, and healthcare-related communications. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and worked as a senior producer at Green Grid Radio, an environmental storytelling radio show and podcast. Her radio work was featured on KCRW, National Radio Project, and State of the Human. She was a fierce advocate for those who suffered from cystic fibrosis, launching the viral social media campaign Lunges4Lungs with friends and raising over $5 million with her parents for CF research through the annual Mallory’s Garden event. She died at the age of twenty-five on November 15, 2017, two months after receiving a double-lung transplant. Mallory’s Legacy Fund has been established…

Free

Emily Nagoski

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

Emily Nagoski’s groundbreaking new book, Burnout (Ballantine), explains why women experience burnout differently than men – and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. Nagoski will also present The Come as You Are Workbook (Simon & Schuster), a new, practical workbook (and companion volume to her bestselling Come as You Are) that allows you to apply her earlier book’s research and understanding of why and how women’s sexuality works to everyday life.

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