This far-ranging conversation, moderated by Professor Samuel Moyn, author of the acclaimed Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, will explore topics including race and power, cultural and parental pressures in shaping life choices, the writing process, and the role of law school in forging and undoing our identities, interests, and passions. In 2017, Kuo released Reading with Patrick, a memoir of teaching reading in a rural.

A Skadden Fellow and Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, she is a passionate advocate of expanding access to education for incarcerated people and has taught in the Prison University Project at San Quentin Prison. This fall, she is helping to start a prison education program in France. Michelle is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has worked as lawyer for undocumented immigrants in Oakland and a teacher in the Arkansas Delta. In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading With Patrick.” Patrick is the prisoner of a system as well as a particular jail. The third section of Reading with Patrick offers perspective on Kuo's encounters with the criminal justice system. and Arthur Evenchik wrote, 'Impassioned writing and hard-earned wisdom set her book apart. Reading With Patrick: A Teacher, a Student and the Life-Changing Power of Books by Kuo, Michelle at .uk - ISBN 10: 1447286057 - ISBN 13. Tutoring Patrick while he's in jail transforms Kuo's basic assumptions about literacy, race, privilege, criminal justice, and her own slice of the American Dream. Reading with Patrick tells of a teachers extraordinary journey A Harvard-educated idealist takes a two-year teaching job in one of. Barack & Michelle Obama Watch Daughter Sasha, 21, Graduate From USC: Photos. Reading with Patrick By Michelle Kuo Random House 320 pp. Praised byThe New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Times Literary Supplement, her book was shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Social Justice Prize and a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Patrick Renna, who played Ham in. Her book, Reading with Patrick, is an expansive meditation on race, inequality, and the power of literature. Michelle Kuo is a professor, writer, and attorney.

Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo