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Best-Selling Author and Emmy Winner Suleika Jaouad Headlines Center for HOPE Luncheon on 6/1

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The Center for HOPE is pleased to welcome best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning journalist Suleika Jaouad as the speaker for its 2021 Annual Luncheon.  This event will be held virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, June 1 at noon.

Suleika’s career aspirations as a war correspondent were cut short when, after her graduation from Princeton University, she was diagnosed with leukemia. She began writing her New York Times column “Life, Interrupted” from her hospital room at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and has since become a fierce advocate for those living with illness and coping with the challenges of returning to “normal life.”

Her New York Times best-selling memoir, “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,” traces Suleika’s journey from diagnosis to treatment to remission, and ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery.  It is a profound and uplifting saga of survival, and an inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.

Suleika has served on Barack Obama’s Presidential Cancer Panel, the national advisory board of the Bone Marrow and Cancer Foundation, and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Arts & Letters Committee. She was awarded the Red Door Advocacy & Community Service Award, and has been an artist in residence at Ucross, ArtYard, and the Kerouac Project.

Tickets can be purchased now at www.familycenters.org/product/Center-for-HOPE-Luncheon.  Exciting sponsorship opportunities, which include a prepared luncheon or boxed lunch from Marcia Selden Catering, are also available.  All attendees will receive a signed copy of “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted.”

Proceeds from the 2021 Center for HOPE Luncheon will benefit the Center for HOPE and The Den for Grieving Kids, which are Family Centers’ programs offering counseling and support to residents of lower Fairfield County coping with a loss, a critical illness or life-altering circumstance.

This year’s event is co-chaired by Lindsay BurnAshley Fox and Nicki Rose.

Please contact Katrina Dorsey, VP of Development, at kdorsey@familycenters.org with any questions. 

Family Centers is a private, nonprofit organization offering heath, education and human services to children, adults and families in Fairfield County. More than 200 professionals and 1,200 trained volunteers work together to provide a wide range of responsive, innovative programs. A United Way, Community Fund of Darien and New Canaan Community Foundation partner agency, Family Centers is a member of the Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies and is accredited by The Joint Commission and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The agency is licensed by the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health. Visit www.familycenters.org for additional information.

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