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An evening with award-winning journalist Deborah Roberts, author of Sisters Loved and Treasured: Stories of Unbreakable Bonds, a celebration of sisterhood, featuring more than 50 personal stories by Viola Davis, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, Arianna Huffington, Octavia Spencer and many more. The event will be moderated by Makeda Mays Green, SVP, Digital & Cultural Consumer Insights, Nickelodeon.
In Sisters Loved and Treasured: Stories of Unbreakable Bonds, award-winning ABC News journalist and New York Times bestselling author Deborah Roberts curates a giftable collection of conversations, meditations and anecdotes from her own sisters, celebrity friends and everyday people who share deeply personal accounts of how their relationships as sisters shaped their lives.
Q&A session to follow presentation.
Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.
Registration required.
Deborah Roberts is an award-winning ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of the news magazine 20/20. A media veteran, Roberts has traveled the world for her reporting. She also serves as a substitute anchor for Good Morning America as well as a guest co-host on The View.
Roberts's in-depth coverage of current events has earned her a Peabody Award for the 20/20 special Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor. She has been awarded multiple Emmy Awards for international and national coverage of world events, including the AIDS crisis in Africa and maternal mortality in Bangladesh.
Roberts is the author of Lessons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life, a New York Times bestseller. She's also authored a book with her husband, Al Roker, called Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom for Modern Times. She currently resides in New York City with her husband and two children.
Makeda Mays Green is Senior Vice President of Digital and Cultural Consumer Insights at Nickelodeon. In her role, she evaluates the most effective ways to reach diverse target audiences through innovative research methodologies across Nickelodeon’s platforms.
Previously, she served as the Director of Education and Research, Digital Media at Sesame Workshop (the creators of Sesame Street), where she examined the potential of current and emerging digital media platforms to provide quality educational material to children and families.
She has delivered several keynote addresses, headlined at numerous national conferences, and guest lectured at Harvard University, New York University, and Temple University. She is the author of Makeda: Moving Up in Media and has appeared on The Learning Channel, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and Good Morning America Now.