BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Dr. Sharon Malone: "Grown Woman Talk" X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T215251Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_45498077383503 DTSTART:20240411T230000Z DTEND:20240412T000000Z DESCRIPTION:There’s not enough talk around women’s health\, and what li ttle there is rarely helps. Women are routinely warned\, lectured\, or thr eatened about their health. Or they are ignored\, dismissed\, or shamed. B ut they are rarely empowered. And empowerment\, more than anything\, is wh at women—and women of color\, in particular—need.\n\nGrown Woman Talk is for every woman who has felt marginalized or overwhelmed by a healthcar e system that has become more impersonal\, complex\, and difficult to navi gate than ever. It’s also for any woman who is simply standing at the in tersection of aging and health\, anxious and wanting solutions.\n\nPart me dical handbook\, part memoir\, and part sister-girl cheerleader\, this boo k is filled with useful resources and real-life stories of victory and def eat. It not only highlights the current data around women’s health issue s\, but it also places that data in a helpful context.\n\nIn a tone that i s lively and intimate but unflinchingly direct\, Dr. Sharon Malone details how to live better\, age better\, and get better medical treatment\, espe cially when it’s most needed. This is not a medical activism book design ed to fight the power. This is a book designed to show women that they alr eady have the power—they need only to increase their capacity and willin gness to use it.\n\nMost important\, Grown Woman Talk seeks to eradicate t he silence that surrounds women’s health by facilitating discussion betw een women of all ages and encouraging more accurate and productive medical insights. It is Dr. Sharon’s belief that giving women more agency can\, literally\, give them life.\n\nDr. Sharon Malone will be joined in conver sation by civil rights lawyer and former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Sherrilyn Ifill. \n\nFirst L ady of Maryland Dawn Moore will introduce the program. \n\nAbout the Autho r: \n\nSharon Malone\, M.D.\, is a board-certified OB/GYN and a certified menopause practitioner who has practiced medicine in the nation’s capita l for more than thirty years. She is the chief medical officer of Alloy Wo men’s Health and a passionate advocate for improved research and educati on around women’s health in midlife. \n\nAbout the Moderator: \n\nSherri lyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and scholar. From 2013-2022\, she serve d as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Edu cational Fund\, Inc. (LDF)\, the nation’s premier civil rights law organ ization fighting for racial justice and equality. She recently served as a Ford Foundation Fellow and as the Klinsky Visiting Professor for Leadersh ip & Progress at Howard Law School. Ifill is currently the Vernon Jordan D istinguished Professor in Civil Rights at Howard Law School. where later t his year she will launch the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy. If ill holds a fellowship at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.\n\nProgram Information: \n\nThis FREE event will be presented in-person and virtuall y. To attend in person please register here. Doors will open to register ed attendees at 6 pm. All registered in-person attendees will receive a fr ee copy of the book. Free parking vouchers are available to program attend ees who park at the Franklin Street Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) after 4 pm. Ask Pratt event staff for your parking voucher prior to or after the program. GEO:39.294601;-76.617302 LOCATION:Central Library\, Wheeler Auditorium SUMMARY:Dr. Sharon Malone: "Grown Woman Talk" URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/dr_sharon_malone_grow n_woman_talk CATEGORIES:Writers LIVE! CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness CATEGORIES:Virtual Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR