Experience an afternoon of inspiration, hope and community with author Ashley C. Ford. Ford is a writer, host and educator who lives in Indianapolis. Her New York Times best-selling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, was published by Flatiron Books in June 2021. Her powerful book explores growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, how isolating and complex such a childhood can be, and her journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into.

• Author talk – Surviving Trauma and the Path to Healing
• Panel discussion with therapist Hazel Owens, MDiv, LMFT
• Book signing and mental health resource fair
• Live music from 2 to 3 p.m. by Allison Victoria

Content warning: Discussion may include sexual assault, child abuse and domestic violence.

Doors open at 2 p.m. The resource fair is happening before and after the program.

Presented by Round Room and Coburn Place
Made possible by the Indianapolis African American Quality of Life Inititative
In partnership with Christ Church Cathedral and Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper