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Staying Authentic: Doing Business with God as a Black Entrepreneur

Join us for dinner with Catrina Sparkman, Black theater artist, publisher, authorpreneur, and Artistic Director of the Creator's Cottage. Catrina will share how she connects her spiritual and Black identities into her work while navigating the professional landscape as a Black Christian female. Dinner will be provided - limited spots are available, and RSVP is required. If you are interested in attending this event, contact Dr. Hills at hillso@lawrence.edu for details and to RSVP.

Catrina Sparkman is an authorpreneur of several works of fiction and non-fiction, including Doing Business with God, Divine Revelation for a Twitter Generation, Passing Through Waters, Opening the Floodgates, The Fire This Time, and Flight of the Blackbird Parts I and II-just to name a few. She is also the founder of IP Ministries, a non-profit that serves the needs of women and children of color in Wisconsin through the use of social action theater, publishing, and the creative arts. She is the CEO of the Ironer's Press, a boutique publishing company, and the Artistic Director of The Creator's Cottage-- a creative arts maker space for artists and writers. She has also produced and directed many experimental theatrical pieces and is the author of two original stage plays and one screenplay, Mother Love, The Cinderella Show, and The Gospel According to Ruth.

This event enhances spiritual and religious life.

This is a diversity-related event.

Location:	International House 101 - Dining Room
Sponsor:	Global and Public Health Department
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