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Kaddish & Presentation with Tracy White, Cartoonist & NYU Professor
Friday, January 17, 2025 • 17 Tevet 5785
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7:00 PM Kaddish followed by Presentation with Speaker Tracy White.
The subject of Tracy's presentation: What drives children to leave everything behind and travel alone to the U.S. to seek asylum? Why are there unaccompanied minors at the southern border, and what happens to them? Tracy White will answer these questions through stories and images from her book, Unaccompanied: Stories of Brave Teenagers Seeking Asylum. Drawing on years of research and interviews, she will share the experiences of teens fleeing danger and explain why some risk everything for the hope of safety in the U.S.
Tracy White is a cartoonist and NYU professor. She believes stories can change the world. Her current book, Unaccompanied: Stories of Brave Teenagers Seeking Asylum tells the true experiences of brave teens fleeing their home countries to seek asylum in the U.S. Based on extensive interviews. Tracy helps us understand why some young people would literally risk their lives to seek safety in the US. Each one of them has been backed into a corner where emigration to the US seems like their only hope. Unaccompanied is a YALSA great Graphic Novel and was a Cybil award finalist for best non-fiction graphic novel.
Tracy’s first graphic novel, How I Made it to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story was a Bank Street Book of the year, a Yalsa Great Graphic Novel, and a Texas Maverick Graphic Novel.
Her webcomics TRACED was nominated twice for an Ignatz and was a TV series for Oxygen TV. Her press kit is attached, and can be found at https://www.traced.com/press-kit/.
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