Podcast summary

Millner, a young African-American woman, grew up in predominantly Hispanic and working class San Jose and went on to Harvard. In her memoir she tours the landscapes of possibility carved by race, class and culture for young Americans.

Participant(s) Bio

Born in San Jose in 1979, Caille Millner was first published at age sixteen, and in 2002 she was named one of Columbia Journalism Review's Ten Young Writers on the Rise. A graduate of Harvard University, she is the coauthor of Doubleday's The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College. She's received the Rona Jaffe Fiction Award as well as prizes from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Press Club, and the New York Black Journalists Association. Currently on the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, she has also written for Newsweek, Essence, The Washington Post, and The Fader.

Meghan Daum is a weekly columnist on the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of the bestselling essay collection My Misspent Youth, the critically acclaimed novel The Quality of Life Report, and has written for many publications, including The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times. She has contributed to public radio's "Morning Edition" and "This American Life" and is a regular guest host on KPCC's "Zocalo: A Cultural Forum for the New L.A."

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