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October 08, 2010
World Literacy Activist Masha Hamilton to Speak at Rotary Conference
(October 6, 2010, Denver, CO) This November, world literacy activist Masha Hamilton will visit Sacramento to give two talks to members of Rotary District 5160, who will be meeting for their annual conference. Ms. Hamilton’s speaking engagements with Rotary are not open to the public, but she has a bookstore event, which is. Ms. Hamilton’s events follow:
Friday, November 5th
11:30 a.m.
Keynote address
Book signing to follow
For Rotarians only
Saturday, November 6th
10:45 a.m.
Talk focused on the Afghan Women’s Writing Workshop
Book signing to follow
For Rotarians only
Saturday, November 6th
4 p.m.
Reading, signing, talk
Avid Reader Bookstore
1600 Broadway
Sacramento, CA 95818
(916) 441-4400
Open to the Public
Masha Hamilton is known for founding two important world literacy programs. In 2006, following her visit to Kenya to see the real camel bookmobile, she created the Camel Book Drive, which was so successful in providing books and other necessary supplies that the camel bookmobile was able to expand. The Camel Book Drive is ongoing. In 2009, she founded the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, which serves to help young Afghan women learn about writing, find their voices, and share their work in a safe forum without their work being filtered by male relatives or the media. The AWWP has provided a lifeline for the women involved in the project, some of whom have been profiled in major U.S. newspapers.
Rotary has several focus areas, among them Basic Education and Literacy, and District 5160 is currently engaged in a Dictionary 4 Life project in Zambia. In July 2011 more than 4,000 students in and around Livingston, Zambia will receive a dictionary that a Rotarian in District 5160 has purchased for them. The project fulfills a significant need in a country which has 73 local dialects but needs help teaching students to learn the county’s one official language for business, government and education, which is English.
Rotary District 5160 runs from Weed (near Mount Shasta) to San Ramon (near Berkeley).
Masha Hamilton worked as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press for five years in the Middle East, where she covered the intefadeh, the peace process and the partial Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. She then spent five years in Moscow, where she was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and NBC/Mutual Radio. She reported from Afghanistan in 2004 and returned in 2008. In addition, Ms. Hamilton is the author of four acclaimed novels: Staircase of a Thousand Steps (2001), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; The Distance Between Us (2004), named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal; and The Camel Bookmobile (2007), of which the New York Times said: “Hamilton makes us see how much is really at stake in a poverty-stricken place where every possession carries the weight of significance”; and 31 HOURS (2009), which was an Indie Next Pick and a Washington Post Best Mystery/Thriller for 2009. She lives in Brooklyn.
Unbridled Books is a nationally recognized independent press founded by Greg Michalson and Fred Ramey.
To learn more, please visit:
http://www.unbridledbooks.com
http://www.mashahamilton.com
http://awwproject.wordpress.com/about/
http://rotary5160.org/
For more information, please contact:
Caitlin Hamilton Summie
888-732-3822, x104
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