About 250 Los Angeles City College students and faculty attended attended my talk in honor of Foster Care Awareness Month as part of LACC Book Program author event series.
The two-hour event went off perfectly thanks to the tireless work of the Book Program organizers and the moderator Sergio Garcia of LACC Foster Care Programs.
In my 45-minute speech, I touched on the social, cultural, and political issues surrounding foster adoption and child welfare in Los Angeles, and illustrated with excerpts from my memoir A Family, Maybe. I finished with some takeaways from my experience as a writer and a parent.
The talk was followed by a conversation with Sergio and a Q&A with the students who lined up behind the audience microphone. The questions they asked were highly relevant, for instance, about the discrimination against LGBTQ parents and the book’s path publication.
The first 40 students received a free copy of my book, subsidized along with the event, by LACC Foundation, which I stayed on to sign afterwards.
Lane Igoudin | Author, Professor, Dad 