Paula Robinson Deare, is a three time MIT alumna, media literacy strategist, mixed media artist, publisher, speaker, coach and author of Power of Voice: Honoring Yourself in Times of Erasure. For three decades she has taught storytelling: first to nonprofit leaders and college students in Boston, now to women of color on the New England South Coast and online. She has worked with Vietnamese, African-American, Japanese-American, Cape Verdean, Latino and other multicultural communities: helping them to carry on their stories about cultual identity, family heritage, and lived experience.
"I created the Multicultural Women Writers Salon because I know what it costs when a story disappears and what becomes possible when it does not. The publishing industry erases women of color. Broadcast media gatekeeps them. The ancestral knowledge of women of color goes unrecorded. Women are the teachers of their cultures, and when their stories are lost, that teaching is lost too. Since 2019, I have been helping women transform their stories into professionally published work placed in the national historic archive. I bring to this work everything I have spent forty years learning about narrative, voice, and who gets to be part of the permanent record. These beautiful journals, both online and in print, can be ordered right here to share with family, friends, and community." |
