Humanities Seminar: Mary Childers, author of Welfare Brat, Discusses the Impact of Poverty on Educational Opportunites

NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 28, 2007 - Author Mary Childers, who grew up in poverty and was the only one of seven siblings to graduate from high school or college, will speak about the ways in which education affects poverty, and how poverty can affect education, in Colby-Sawyer College's Humanities Seminar.

The seminar will take place on Friday, Nov. 30, at 2:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge, Ware Campus Center. Admission is free and open to everyone.

Mary Childers is the author Welfare Brat, a lyrical and often humorous memoir that illuminates the causes of welfare dependence, generational poverty, and highlights a popular culture that values sexuality more than self-esteem and self-sufficiency.

The Humanities Seminars at Colby-Sawyer explore the breadth of current scholarship within the many disciplines across the humanities with presentations and discussions with scholars from campuses across the Northeast.

For more information about the Humanities Seminars, please contact Caren Baldwin-Dimeo at cbaldwin-dimeo@colby-sawyer.edu.