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Can Storytelling Prevent Gun Violence?

Join us on Tuesday Sept 20 at 7 pm for a community conversation about gun violence prevention, with poetry, art, stories and film. Moderated by Poet Gold, Toni Jensen, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Dr. Chethan Sathya.

co-sponsored by Bellevue Literary Review and the Northwell Health Center for Gun Violence Prevention

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Bettina “Poet Gold” Wilkerson is pushing the boundaries of poetry and the spoken word. Appointed the 2017 and 2018 NYS Dutchess County Poet Laureate, Poet Gold, or as she is affectionately known as, “Gold,” is the recipient of numerous awards which include the 2016 Dutchess County Executive’s Artivist Award and the Dutchess County Athena Award honoree.

Toni Jensen is the author of “Carry,” a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and Indigenous women’s lives (Ballantine, 2020). An NEA Creative Writing Fellowship recipient in 2020, Jensen’s essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult and Ecotone. She is also the author of the short story collection “From the Hilltop.” She teaches at the University of Arkansas and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Métis.

Dr. Chethan Sathya is a pediatric trauma surgeon and director of Northwell Health’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention. The center aims to shift the paradigm to view gun violence as a public health issue and to approach firearm injury risk as any other health risk factor like smoking and substance use. Dr. Sathya was recently awarded $1.4 million from NIH to study gun violence prevention and to implement a first-of-its-kind protocol to universally screen everyone at risk of firearm injury.

Dr. Danielle Ofri is a primary care physician at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at NYU. She is editor-in-chief of Bellevue Literary Review, and her writing appears in The New Yorker, and the New York Times, as well as in The Lancet, and NEJM. Her newest book is “When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error.”











When: Tue., Sep. 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us on Tuesday Sept 20 at 7 pm for a community conversation about gun violence prevention, with poetry, art, stories and film. Moderated by Poet Gold, Toni Jensen, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Dr. Chethan Sathya.

co-sponsored by Bellevue Literary Review and the Northwell Health Center for Gun Violence Prevention

Click here to RSVP.

event_description_image_92114_1656801866_94ea0.png

Bettina “Poet Gold” Wilkerson is pushing the boundaries of poetry and the spoken word. Appointed the 2017 and 2018 NYS Dutchess County Poet Laureate, Poet Gold, or as she is affectionately known as, “Gold,” is the recipient of numerous awards which include the 2016 Dutchess County Executive’s Artivist Award and the Dutchess County Athena Award honoree.

Toni Jensen is the author of “Carry,” a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and Indigenous women’s lives (Ballantine, 2020). An NEA Creative Writing Fellowship recipient in 2020, Jensen’s essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult and Ecotone. She is also the author of the short story collection “From the Hilltop.” She teaches at the University of Arkansas and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Métis.

Dr. Chethan Sathya is a pediatric trauma surgeon and director of Northwell Health’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention. The center aims to shift the paradigm to view gun violence as a public health issue and to approach firearm injury risk as any other health risk factor like smoking and substance use. Dr. Sathya was recently awarded $1.4 million from NIH to study gun violence prevention and to implement a first-of-its-kind protocol to universally screen everyone at risk of firearm injury.

Dr. Danielle Ofri is a primary care physician at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at NYU. She is editor-in-chief of Bellevue Literary Review, and her writing appears in The New Yorker, and the New York Times, as well as in The Lancet, and NEJM. Her newest book is “When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error.”

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