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GOWANUS: 185 FIRST ST.<br />
COBBLE HILL: 286 COURT ST.<br />
www.brooklynwriters.com<br />
Michele Weisman, Founder and<br />
Executive Director.<br />
Meet the Writers has also<br />
been a way to distill her<br />
life’s experience, from a career<br />
focused on educational<br />
publishing, to her time<br />
volunteering with P.S. 321’s<br />
author visits, to her term as<br />
PTA co-president at Hunter<br />
College High School. Weisman<br />
found herself craving<br />
both new challenges and<br />
new meaning in her work,<br />
and the timing seemed ideal<br />
as her children approached<br />
the end of high school. “I<br />
turned fifty, started running,<br />
and wanted to reinvent<br />
and recharge myself,” Weisman says, and with Meet the Writers,<br />
she has turned that extensive energy and dedication to the<br />
service of New York City’s children. Whether meeting award-winning<br />
authors like Jacqueline Woodson or Elizabeth Acevedo, both<br />
of whom grew up in New York City themselves, or writers who’ve<br />
traveled- sometimes across the country- to speak with them, New<br />
York’s public school students are enriched by one woman’s mission:<br />
to help them find the joy of becoming book people themselves.<br />
<br />
www.meetthewriters.org
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