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Resmaa Menakem in conversation

Join Friends of the Hennepin County Library for an evening with bestselling author Resmaa Menakem (“My Grandmother’s Hands”) as he discusses his new book, “The Quaking of America,” with radio and podcast host Lissa Jones.
The talk will conclude with a live Q&A session with webinar participants. This virtual event is FREE and open to the public. Registration for the Zoom event is required using the form linked HERE. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.


Resmaa Menakem is a healer, a longtime therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the healing of racialized trauma. He is also the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute, a cultural trauma navigator, and a communal provocateur and coach. Resmaa is best known as the author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, and as the originator and key advocate of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice of living and culture building.

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