MAS 100
Parking lot #6 to MAS
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Donna Pope is a writer, Professor of English at Brookdale, and someone who thrives on connection and being honest about what we are often afraid to talk about. She cherishes the community, sanity, and sense of purpose she’s found in her many years at Brookdale.

Donna identifies as a support-group queen, someone in long-term recovery from addiction, member of the LGBTQ community, neurodivergent, and a divorced, single mom. In the last decade, she adopted her oldest child through the NJ foster care system, lost both parents to lung cancer, survived a marriage broken down by mental illness and family dysfunction, and weathered many parenting fails and successes raising three needy, amazing kids.

In this talk, Donna will share a variety of resources that have supported her and her family through so many challenges and discuss some psychological approaches and meditative practices that have been transformational. She likes being in the moment and improvising, so come prepared for stumbling and imperfection, vulnerability, laughter born from identification, definitely some music, and maybe some storytelling, poetry, art, meditation, and whatever else all of you bring into the space.

Link to REGISTER for Zoom presentation

MAS 100 and on Zoom

*Lunch will be served

Sponsored by Student Life Activities