[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Health Equity as Community Commitment
Treatment works. It might take a while, but treatment works. Everyone deserves access to treatment. Everyone deserves access to quality health services across the continuum of care. We live and work on the frontline in our community center, schools, prisons, and assessment center— really, everywhere we are needed — to support our community before, during, and after a crisis. We say we are in the business of hope. Prevention is fundamentally about hope. Hope built on a healthy foundation and access to support when and where we need it. That’s health equity. Prevention in the context of health equity starts with sowing the seeds of hope, continues with reaching out a hand when we see someone in need, and comes full circle when we see our entire community stronger through our efforts.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
