The Community Library Lecture Room

An Evening with Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia

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In collaboration with the I Have A Dream Foundation of Idaho, The Community Library welcomes Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia.

This program will be live streamed and can be viewed on The Community Library’s LIVESTREAM page during and after the event.

Alisha’s story is a reminder to us all that there are paths to overcoming adversity and the power of education in our children’s lives. Alisha was in Portland, Oregon’s first “I Have a Dream” Foundation class. She faced plenty of adversity as a young child and with hard work and support from IHDF-OR throughout elementary school, middle and high school, Alisha went onto receiving a scholarship to Stanford University, where she received her Bachelor of Science, then went on to becoming an M.D. from The George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a four years of training in psychiatry and a fellowship in addiction medicine, at Oregon Health Sciences University. She will soon be starting as an Associate Professor at Harvard University this Spring.

Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, author of Training for Change: Transforming Systems to be Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive and Neuroscientifically Focused. Currently, she is executive director of Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Avel Gordly Center for Healing and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Moreland-Capuia is also a Commissioner for Prosper Portland, serves on the board of the Oregon Historical Society,  an appointee to the Oregon Health Policy Board Healthcare Workforce Committee, a former Mayoral appointee to the Community Oversight Board, and a former appointee to the Governor’s Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs. She is also the Co-Founder of The Capuia Foundation, whose mission is to build a sustainable economy through healthcare, education and agriculture in Angola. 

Dr. Moreland-Capuia will soon begin her role as Director of the Program for Culturally and Trauma-Informed Community Outreach, within the Division of Depression and Anxiety, and as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

The I Have a Dream Foundation of Idaho provides academic, social and emotional support to low-income youth, from early elementary school through high-school and college, with guaranteed tuition support. Their work is founded on the belief that given equal access to resources, all children can realize their innate potential and achieve their dreams.

“Real People, Real Recovery: Overcoming Addiction in Modern America” with Piers Kaniuka

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In collaboration with the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation, The Community Library presents Piers Kaniuka, co-author of Real People, Real Recovery: Overcoming Addiction in Modern America.

The opioid epidemic is laying waste to America. Overdose deaths have decimated a generation and lowered overall life expectancy. Between Big Pharma, the war on drugs, and ineffectual treatment, addicts and their families face an uphill battle in getting the help they need. But there is a way out! Noted recovery professionals Eric Spofford and Piers Kaniuka provide some much needed hope. They describe how they beat opiate addiction and went on to help thousands of addicts find recovery. Along the way, they discuss the root causes of the current opiate epidemic, which include dislocation, the prison industrial complex, practices of the pharmaceutical industry, stress, racism, poverty, and much more. In addition, Real People Real Recovery explains the difference between recovery and sobriety and what actually constitutes success in treatment.

**Special program start time is 4:00 pm**

 

Piers Kaniuka is Director of Spiritual Life at Granite Recovery Centers. He has worked in the field of addiction for over twenty years and is an expert in how to best utilize holistic practices in the treatment of addiction. Piers is the former chair of the department of Transpersonal Psychology at Burlington College and is a core faculty member in the Contemplative Spiritual Direction certificate program at the Alcyon Center in Seal Cove, Maine. He is also a co-founder of the Liberation Institute, a non-profit dedicated to training incarcerated men and women to become yoga instructors. Piers has Master’s degrees in Theological Studies (Bangor Theological Seminary) and Counseling Psychology (Antioch University, New England).

“Girls Who Run the World” with Diana Kapp

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Did you know?
• Just 6.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.
• Women in the U.S. start 30-40% of all businesses, but those account for just 4% of income earned.
• In 2018 just 2% of venture capital dollars went to companies with a female founder.
• 23 percent of fifth grade girls think they are not smart enough to pursue their dream career, and by high school this number doubles.

In her new book, Girls Who Run The World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business, Diana Kapp introduces readers to successful, innovative women in a variety of fields, from biotech and construction to food and fashion, who share their personal narratives of struggle, failure and their fight to the top. Their stories are powerful and necessary as girls continue to overcome generations of intellectual and occupational constraints.

This celebration of triumph and perseverance includes the stories of entrepreneurs and many others made it big—along with excellent advice to their teenage selves—and material useful for enterprising young women and girls.

Join us for an evening with Diana as she shares the stories of these entrepreneurial women and where we go from here. She’ll share stories geared for all ages, so bring your sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren along!

Diana will be in conversation with Gretchen Wagner, architect and principal of scape design studio in Ketchum.

Diana Kapp is an award-winning journalist whose work has taken her inside San Quentin prison (to cover an entrepreneur training program), and to deepest Afghanistan with a female school-builder. She writes about education, culture, technology and entrepreneurism for media outlets such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, ELLE, O the Oprah Magazine and Marie Claire. She holds an MBA from Stanford and has worked in web and biotech start-ups.

Books will be available for sale and signing, courtesy of Iconoclast Books.

James Joyce’s “Ulysses” with Enda Duffy

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In celebration of Dale Chihuly’s and Seaver Leslie’s Ulysses Cylinders on display in The Community Library foyer (through January 10, 2020), please join us for an afternoon with modernist scholar Enda Duffy. Dr. Duffy will be discussing James Joyce, the novel Ulysses, and its intimate connection to the glass cylinders on display.

Enda Duffy is a Professor in the English Department at UC Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he won a Whiting Fellowship, and taught at Reed College and Wesleyan University before coming to UC Santa Barbara. His central interests include modernism and postmodernism, Irish literature, cultural studies and critical theory, and James Joyce. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses, and of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. The Speed Handbook was co-winner of the Modernist Studies Assocaition Book Award as the best book in modernist studies, 2010. Prof. Duffy is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism, of an edition of Ulysses and of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, and of numerous articles on Joyce, Irish modernism, and on post-colonial and modernist literature and culture. He is the founding director of COMMA, the Center on Modern Literature and Culture in the English Dept. Professor Duffy is currently working on two projects: a cultural history of modern Ireland, and a book on energy in modernist culture.

Photo by Paul Wellman for Santa Barbara Independent ©

“The Idaho Traveler” with Alan Minskoff

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In 1976, Alan Minskoff embarked on a tour of Idaho to explore the future of the state’s small towns and record what was special about them in the voices of residents and unique characters and in his own intuitive perceptions about rooting one’s identity to place. Forty-plus years later, he returns to those towns to record in flashbacks and new impressions his love for the towns, the old buildings, the people, the food, and especially the best sources for pie. As a poet, journalist and teacher, he offers in The Idaho Traveler a colorful historical and culinary tour, revisiting the miles of contemplative two-lane blacktop that tie one town to the next. From Paris to Oakley to Idaho City to Wallace, this book is a traveling companion to our own impressions.

**Special program time is 4:00**

Books will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Iconoclast Books.

Alan Minskoff has spent his life in pursuit of journalism, historic preservation, the arts, urban issues, wine and wine making. He has taught Journalism at the College of Idaho since 2001, and in early 2019, he and his wife created the Alan and Royanne Minskoff Scholarship for Journalism students. He was the founding chair of The Cabin in Boise in 1996, and as a longtime board member of the Idaho Heritage Trust he co-chaired the Capital Campaign  to create the Idaho Shakespeare Festival amphitheater on the Boise River. His latest book is The Idaho Traveler. Other publications include: Idaho Wine Country, 2010 (Caxton), Point Blank, 2006 (Limberlost), Blue Ink Runs Out on a Partly Cloudy Day: Poems, 1994 (Limberlost), and A Future for the Small Town in Idaho, Anti-Anthology, 1976 (University of Idaho Press). His work has appeared in Edible Idaho, The Intermoutain Observer, Travel and Leisure, Boise Magazine and other publications.

Celebrating Apollo 11: Lessons from Space with Margrit von Braun

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NASA’s Apollo Mission and Earth’s Climate Crisis

On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a journey to the Moon and into history. Four days later, while Collins orbited the Moon in the command module, Armstrong and Aldrin landed Apollo 11’s lunar module, Eagle, on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, becoming the first humans to set foot on the lunar surface.

Wernher von Braun, a German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect, joined NASA in 1960 and served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. Wernher’s daughter, Margrit von Braun, has spoken to audiences across the country this year in honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, which her father was an instrumental figure in.

Join us for an evening with Margrit as she shares lessons from Apollo–why and how we got to the moon; lessons from Earth–how pollution and environmental health problems are connected to climate; and how we apply lessons learned from space and the Apollo mission to our current climate crisis.

Margrit von Braun is an environmental engineer, working in the areas of hazardous waste management and risk assessment. She holds degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Idaho, and Washington State University. After working for USEPA in Atlanta, Margrit moved to Idaho in 1977 to work for the Idaho DEQ. She joined the faculty at UI in 1980; she directed the Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering programs for 10 years and served as Dean of the College of Graduate Studies. Recently, Margrit and her husband Ian founded TerraGraphics International Foundation (TIFO), a non-governmental organization assisting communities in reducing their environmental exposures. Margrit was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and has fond memories of growing up in the town that took us to the Moon.

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