Episode 094. Opal Palmer Adisa illuminates the experiences that allow her to find her voice, embrace her gifts, and raise awareness about gender and development.

Opal Palmer Adisa is an award-winning poet and prose writer with over sixteen titles to her credit, including the novel, It Begins With Tears (1997), which Rick Ayers proclaimed as one of the most motivational works for young adults. Following in the tradition of the African “griot” Opal Palmer Adisa, an accomplished storyteller, commands the mastery and extraordinary talent of storytelling, exemplary of her predecessors. Through her imaginative characterizations of people, places and things, she is able to transport her listeners to the very wonderlands she creates.

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