A Virtual Three-Week Storytelling Series
Beyond Borders: Women’s Stories and the Art of Bearing Witness
Join us in October as four fascinating storytellers talk to three Suffolk University professors via Zoom. Laura Levitt, professor, Religion, Jewish Studies and Gender, Temple University, Alba Jaramillo, executive director, Arizona Justice For Our Neighbors and nationally recognized human rights and social justice advocate, Patricia Davis, noted author, poet, and playwright, and Phoebe Potts, director, Family Learning, Sylvia Cohen Religious School, memoirist, and comic. These four captivating women will share their work, which bears witness to struggles about human rights, memory, belonging, and love.
Week Two: October 15, 2020
Live at 7:00 pm
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Alba Jaramillo and Patricia Davis talk about Digna. Written by Patricia Davis, the one-woman play starring Jaramillo follows Digna Ochoa, a prominent Mexican human rights lawyer who suffered torturous attacks following her defense of environmentalist peasants in Mexico. By the age of 37, she had met President Clinton, became close to the Kennedy family, and won a MacArthur Fellowship and the Amnesty International’s Enduring Spirit Award. In 2001, she was killed in her Mexico City office. In the play, Digna comes back from the dead in response to the worsening human rights crisis in Mexico. Jaramillo, an immigrant, human rights lawyer, and activist herself, plays the role of Digna with conviction, passion, and self-reflection. In telling her story and confronting her own doubts, Digna finds her strength and courage as she invites us to find our own. The evening’s moderator is Iani Moreno, PhD, associate professor, World Languages and Cultural Studies Department, Suffolk University.
THIS VIRTUAL SERIES IS PRODUCED BY WGBH FORUM NETWORK
