Join us for a boxed lunch and an arts-based workshop using short poems as inspiration to connect with colleagues across Arizona Arts and build community centered on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ll share ideas and experiences about how to best support students, including those from historically marginalized communities.
This workshop is led by Laila Halaby, who combines writing and social services to create engaging community programs that encourage creative thinking and communication. Laila Halaby is the author of two novels:
- Once in a Promised Land and West of the Jordan (winner of a PEN Beyond Margins award)
- A forthcoming memoir, The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen 2023)
- Poetry collections, why an author writes to a guy holding a fish and my name on his tongue.
Laila lives in Tucson where she works as a counselor, museum educator, and creative writing teacher.
