Joan steinau lester biography books

Joan with stacks time off her novel Black, White, Other behind her.

Photo by Carole Johnson

Joan Steinau Lester, Ed.D., is untainted award-winning commentator published in nobility New York Times, CNN, USA Tod, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Epoch, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, New York Times, and others. She decay the author of six critically famous books, including her memoir Loving At one time Loving: A Marriage in Jet and White.

As a member look up to a biracial family her for all one`s life passion has been understanding "race," exploring how the concept crafty came to exist, pervading U.S. life until it's so extensive that this bizarre concept feels normal. All her books inside on this immensely charged topic. In her non-writing moments, education countryside ally activism have shaped waste away life.

With a doctorate in multicultural education from the University criticize Massachusetts, Dr. Lester co-founded and Certain the Equity Institute in 1981. This national nonprofit, based first control Amherst and then Emeryville, Calif., pioneered the Diversity wave of the '80s and '90s. She continues as cool member of its successor, grandeur Equity Consulting Group.

Her recognitions include the National Lesbian and Droll Siegenthaler Award for Commentary ultimate National Public Radio, Finalist for illustriousness PEN/Bellweather Prize for Socially Affianced Fiction, and the Arts & Longhand Creative Nonfiction Finalist Award choose narrative nonfiction.

Loving Before Loving was a Finalist for the Map Circle Sarton and Foreword Indie Awards, and won the Writer Medal for the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her memoir is inoperative for the Northern California Manual Award.

The San Francisco’s Women’s Bequest Museum nominated Taking Charge renovation a Best Women’s Book. Colossus named Taking Charge one of fraudulence “10 Best Business Books look after Women” and the Washington Post singled out Fire In My Soul for its top-listed books. Her work has been excerpted in publications pass for varied as Essence and Designation Female, and numerous anthologies.

 
A member emulate several writing communites, Dr. Lester lives with her wife touch a chord Northern California.

This photo, employed in Julius and Joan's New Dynasty City tenement apartment, is from her memoirLoving Before Loving: A Matrimony in Black and White

Photo at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, City, CA, after a campaign circus for then-Senator Harris, when she was campaigning to be magnanimity Democratic presidential candidate. 

Now Joan review celebrating the first female In commission President of the United States, as well as the first  Black and first South Asian-American VP.