FAITH ADIELE
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FAITH ADIELE is
the co-editor of Coming of Age
Around the World: A
Multicultural Anthology, which
contains 24 international
stories ideal for college and high school classrooms.
Her travel memoir, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a
Black Buddhist
Nun (W.W. Norton), won the 2005 PEN Beyond Margins Award for
Best
Memoir (of 2004). The PBS documentary "My Journey Home" is based
on
her
(Obama) life growing up in a Nordic-American family and then traveling
to
Nigeria to meet her father and siblings. Other projects include The Student Body: A Novel, a trashy
thriller co-written with 3
Harvard pals,
and 2 children's readers on urban Africa.
A popular speaker and contributor to O and Essence magazines, Faith has appeared on NPR, in a television ad for TIAA-CREF, on the Tavis Smiley show, and at universities around the world. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, California and is at work on a social/cultural memoir about her Nigerian Nordic American heritage. Last year she was chosen as one of Marie Claire magazine's "5 Women to Learn From." |
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A Note from Faith... |
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I can't believe it's taken me 6 months to post about my fabulous new life on the Left Coast (which is shockingly remiss, given the size of my food photo portfolio, as I determinedly eat my way through the East Bay)! Some highlights of my life in California (besides taking my students to snow-bound Tahoe on a writing - and sledding - retreat and shopping at the amazing Lake Merritt Farmer's Market in 70-degree weather while Pittsburgh is digging itself out from snow): Barbie & Afro-Puffs: In this excerpt from Meeting Faith, YES! Magazine Online tells you everything you (n)ever wanted to know about the history of my hair and my mother's Barbie policy - complete with cute kid pix! It's also featured on the HAPPINESS page. Memoir as the Ultimate Multicultural Act: Meanwhile, the terrific new print issue of YES! Magazine, Issue #53, Spring 2010, which is about buidling a multicultural society, features AN ARTICLE BY ME on teaching multicultural literature to students against their will, being show-and-tell at my goddaughter's fifth grade class, and memoir as the ultimate multicultural act. Look for it on newsstands and the cyberworld on March 4. Contact YES! for bulk copies to distribute at events! Faith Goes Digital: Look, Mom - I teached myself how to make a Book Trailer, complete with music (that looks like every other person's first efforts on iMovie. Ooo, Ken Burns effect!)! All the cool kids are doing it. (Both links will get you the 2:40 minute video on YouTube.)  What I Never I Imagined When I Left Thailand: BECOMING THE COORDINATOR for a Weekly Meditation Sitting Group for People of Color every Thursday night at the fabulous East Bay Meditation Center. (I'm no longer the only black girl in the temple!) AND Sunday brunch at the Thai Buddhist Temple (which they asked me not to publicize. It's that good). AND BEING ASKED TO WRITE the introduction to To Thailand With Love: A Connoisseur's Guide, a stunning, full-color travel series from Asia that publishes insider stories and tips from expats and natives only, no tourists. A Girl & A Gun & A Bottle & A Book: Where you can find me: At the San Francisco Film Noir Film Festival at the fabulous Castro Theatre. (Ah, it was like coming home! Ever since leaving Cambridge, Massachusetts with its Monday night Film Noir Double Feature at the Brattle Theatre, I've been looking for a noir town to call my own.) * The Tattoo Expo at the Cow Palace in Daly City * The Chocolate & Beer Festival in Richmond * The SF Indie Fest: Winter MusicFest & Independent Film Fest in San Francisco * The Wine & Blues Festival in Calistoga * The Oakland International Film Festival * The Día de los Muertos Celebration in Fruitvale * The Chinese New Year Celebration in San Francisco * The LitQuake Literary Fest in San Francisco * The San Francisco Documentary Festival (where CAT LADIES was of course my favorite!). Let's face it, it's festive out here - come visit!
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