“Telling Our Lives, Conversations on Solidarity and Difference”

A panel featuring Frida Kerner Furman, Elizabeth A. Kelly and Linda Williamson Nelson, authors of “Telling Our Lives, Conversations on Solidarity and Difference,” which explores how three working-class women from Jewish, African-American and Irish-American backgrounds connect across their differences through storytelling and conversation. Furman and Kelly teach at DePaul University and Nelson teaches at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey. It is part of the college's “Immigration and Identities: Academic Cultures in Transition” conference, the meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education, an international organization of scholars, teachers, professionals and others interested in values in higher education.