Cambridge Public Library to Host Valeria Luiselli for Our Path Forward Lecture on Immigration

On Wednesday, February 26, the Cambridge Public Library will welcome Valeria Luiselli for a talk on immigration. Luiselli will present on her experiences working with immigrants at 6 p.m. in the Main Library Lecture Hall. This lecture is a part of the Library’s Our Path Forward series, which invites experts to discuss issues involving our shared democracy. This event is hybrid, and registration is required. 

Valeria Luiselli is the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, and other books. In 2019, she received a MacArthur Fellowship for "challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others."

In Tell Me How It Ends, which recounts Luiselli's experience as an interpreter for newly-arrived migrant children, she writes, "being aware of what is happening in our era and choosing to do nothing about it has become unacceptable."

The Our Path Forward series, first introduced in 2016, encourages public discourse, understanding of key issues, and civic engagement. Past programs include a panel on immigration, civil rights, journalism and mass incarceration featuring Susan Church, chair of the American Immigration Lawyers of New England; a keynote talk by foreign policy expert and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns; and a Democracy Day celebration with a participatory reading of the Constitution and a special talk by US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

This event is sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation. 

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