[OPLINLIST] Foster Youth Activist + Best-Selling Author Regina Calcaterra to Speak at County Library - Sept 27

[Andrea Legg]

Greetings!

 

Regina Calcaterra, author of the New York Times best-selling book, Etched in
Sand, will be visiting the Tuscarawas County Public Library located at 121
Fair Avenue in New Philadelphia, on Saturday, September 27 at 2:00pm.

Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist.
Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Calcaterra and her
four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find
themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and
intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons.

A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Calcaterra's
rising above her past, while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters
together through it all.

Calcaterra has been the recipient of several honors and awards including
being honored by the Children of Bellevue, Chair and famed chef Tom
Collichio for serving as a role model for foster children, and receiving the
Speak Out for a Child Award from CASA-NYC and the Maxine Postal Humanitarian
Award, the East End Women's Network Woman of the Year Award, and the
Geraldine Ferraro Award of Courage.

For more than a decade, Calcaterra served as a frequent commentator of
policy and politics on Fox News, CNBC, Fox 5 and also contributed op-eds to
Newsday and other media outlets on national and local issues. She proudly
serves as a Vice President of the Board for You Gotta Believe, an
organization that works towards finding older foster children forever homes.

The Visiting Author Series event is presented free of charge. A book signing
will follow Calcaterra's talk. To save a seat for the program, please call
330.364.4474 ext 101 or for more information visit www.tusclibrary.org.

Thanks for your support - hope some of you can make it!

 

Andrea Legg

Extension & Technical Services Manager

Tuscarawas County Public Library System

121 Fair Avenue NW

New Philadelphia, OH 44663

www.tusclibrary.org

 

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