Sarah Towle guest speaker at the March 27 RCNY International Breakfast at the UN
Topic: "CROSSING THE LINE FINDING AMERICA IN THE BORDERLANDS"
Sarah Towle is an educator, researcher, and award winning author, a human rights defender, choral soprano, and charismatic speaker. She has taught English language literacy, cross-cultural communication, and the writing craft for three decades on four continents across the age span and in myriad class contexts, including under the trees in refugee settings. Sarah resides in an ephemeral borderlands, buffeted and buoyed by a diversity of languages, cultures, landscapes, and creeds. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands is Sarah’s debut full-length book.
Why this book, why right now? The author writes:
"It was family separation and “kids in cages” that drove Sarah Towle to the US southern border. On discovering the many-headed Hydra that is the US immigration system, she could never look away again. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands charts her journey from outrage to activism to abolition as she exposes, layer by “broken” layer, the global deterrence to detention to deportation complex that is failing everyone—save the profiteers and demagogues who benefit from it. Crossing the Line is now more timely than ever, transforming overnight from a handbook for a more humane world into a manual for safeguarding and standing up for human rights. Wondering what Trump 2.0 will look like? It’s all in Sarah’s book. A deftly woven tapestry of history, memoir, and oral storytelling, Crossing the Line obliterates today’s dangerous, divisive, and disturbing disinformation narratives on immigration through riveting human tales of ordinary people expressing extraordinary acts of daily kindness. They inspire us all to join the grassroots frontline “war of welcome” that Sarah documents, before we travel much farther down our current course—one which history will not soon forgive or forget."
