Description
Dream Big, the Cambridge Public Library Foundation's annual signature event, convenes Cambridge residents and thought leaders to explore timely issues confronting our nation's citizens and civic institutions. This year, Dream Big addresses social justice with a focus on incarceration and ecucation. It is a pressing consideration, with 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S. today. This event is free and open to all. Registration required. RSVP to lina@cplfound.org or call 857-235-9278.
Join Maria McCauley, Director of Libraries, and Board members of the Cambridge Public Library Foundation for this special evening. Our guests will be the Honorable Leslie E. Harris, Associate Justice, Dorchester Juvenile Court, Suffolk County (retired); Elizabeth Hinton, author, historian, Associate Professor, Department of History & Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; and Michelle Kuo, author of Reading with Patrick, Assistant Professor in the History, Law and Society Program, American University in Paris.Kim McLarin, Associate Professor, Emerson College, author and regular guest on WGBH-TV's Basic Black, will moderate the panel discussion and guide the community discussion that follows.