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Introduction to Tommy Orange

Moderator Ellen de Bruin delivered the following introduction to Tommy Orange on February 14.

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California Dreamin'

Journalist Laila Frank spent part of 2018 traveling the West Coast. In this series she shows the different faces of California, ‘the Golden State’: the richest of all states is also home to the highest poverty rate in the country. In her seventh blog, Laila writes about the severe feelings of loneliness many Americans experience and how others took on loneliness as an inspiration to create.

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