Registration required!
Join us on June 17th, 7:00-8:30pm EST for a writing workshop with EMMY Award Winning Journalist, Author, Poet, and Epidemiologist Dr. Seema Yasmin. Proceeds from this workshop will benefit Community Building Art Works, supporting our programs for Veterans, Service Members, and Healthcare Providers.
Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet, medical doctor and author of Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration and Adventure and the forthcoming poetry collection, If God Is A Virus. Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and a medical analyst for CNN. Her health and science reporting appears in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, and WIRED.
Register Here


Seema Reza is a poet and essayist and the author of two books: A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Writing and Community Building from Goddard College. In 2010 Seema began working with service members, veterans, and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and has since developed a unique multi-hospital arts program that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization. In 2015, the USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore awarded Seema the Col John Gioia Patriot Award for her work with service members in military hospitals. Seema is a 2019 George W. Bush Institute Stand-To Veteran Leadership Scholar.