The Santa Clara County Library District is kicking off its third annual Distinguished Creator Sequence subsequent month in Campbell, when the primary of three writers is ready to talk.
“We're pleased to supply the Distinguished Creator Sequence in individual this 12 months,” mentioned County Librarian Jennifer Weeks in an announcement. “We hope this 12 months’s three very totally different and dynamic authors will encourage our neighborhood members to hitch us within the dialog round attention-grabbing and vital matters.”
Tv anchor, writer and Emmy-winning journalist Emily Chang will take the stage at Campbell’s Heritage Theatre 1 W. Campbell Ave., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. Chang stories on world know-how and media corporations, startups and the way forward for enterprise. Her exposé 2018 “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Membership of Silicon Valley” make clear the problem of gender gaps in Silicon Valley which have shut girls out of the nice wealth creation.
Bestselling novelist and editor Silvia Moreno-Garcia will proceed the sequence Saturday, Oct. 1 at 3 p.m. on the Smithwick Theater at Foothill Faculty, 12345 El Monte Street, Los Altos. Born in Mexico and residing in Canada, Moreno-Garcia is the recipient of the Locus and British Fantasy Awards. Her works embrace “Mexican Gothic” (2020), “Velvet Was the Evening” (2021) and “The Daughter of Physician Moreau” (2022). Moreno-Garcia will likely be in dialog with moderator Alexis Madrigal of KQED.
Dr. Daphne Miller is a medical physician and writer who research the connections between well being, meals and agriculture with the objective of constructing a more healthy and extra resilient meals system. Her Distinguished Creator speak is ready for Saturday, Oct. 22, at 3 p.m. within the Discussion board 1 Constructing at De Anza Faculty, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino.
Miller additionally helped to bridge elements of the medical system into park methods, introducing “park prescriptions” in her 2009 Washington Publish piece “Take a Hike and Name Me within the Morning.” She has written two books, “The Jungle Impact: The Science of Knowledge and Conventional Diets” (2008) and “Farmacology: Whole Well being from the Soil Up” (2013).
The Distinguished Creator Sequence is free and open to the general public. Register prematurely to attend every of those occasions at sccld.org/authorseries.