An Evening of Conversation with Kayla Branstetter
Please join author and professor Kayla Branstetter as she discuss her most recent book, ‘Don’t Be An Athena.’
This event will include a 30-minute moderated interview with an audience Q+A and signing to follow.
Tickets: $23 (admission w/ hardcover book), $16 (admission w/ paperback book), $12.50 (general admission)
Note: Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred, if you are unable to attend.
About Don’t Be An Athena:
What if America's greatest strength has always been its greatest paradox?
For 250 years, the United States has been guided by the immortal promises of liberty and equality. Yet from slavery and westward expansion to civil rights, post-truth politics, and the tensions of the twenty-first century, the nation has wrestled with the uncomfortable reality that its highest ideals and its lived experience have often stood in stark contradiction.
Liberty and Equality in America explores the enduring struggle between the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the paradoxes that have shaped the American experiment. Drawing upon history, philosophy, theology, contemporary culture, slavery, racial capitalism, and civil liberties, to examine the ongoing quest to legitimately become, “We the People." Williams examines how the Declaration transformed democratic thought by asserting that political power belongs to the people, while exploring the ongoing challenge of fully realizing its promises of liberty and equality. As Boston reflects on its pivotal role in the American Revolution, Williams provides a compelling voice on the Declaration’s enduring legacy and the questions it continues to raise more than two centuries later.
About Kayla Branstetter:
Kayla Branstetter is an award-winning writer, English instructor, TEDx speaker, and doctoral researcher whose work explores the intersections of storytelling, health, identity, and resilience. Her writing has appeared in more than forty literary journals worldwide, and she is the author of Don't Be an Athena, a work of creative nonfiction examining women's health, medical bias, and the complicated expectations placed on modern women. She lives in Missouri with her husband and two daughters, where she is usually writing, teaching, traveling to softball tournaments, or searching for the next great story.