Attend our second Speaker Series event: "Turning Berkeley Lives into Books"! Our speakers, Cal alumni and authors Edward Blakely M.A. '64 and Tiffany Tsao Ph.D. '09, will conduct a discussion around the topic of how they transform what they live into what they write. Join us for a lively and insightful conversation about creativity and how our speakers' experiences at Cal have influenced their written work. Attendees will be invited to participate in the discussion and mingle afterwards over drinks!

About the speakers:
Dr. Edward J. Blakely is one of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of urban policy, and has authored more than ten books across various genres. His publications include Fortress America, Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities, and the memoir My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina. A product of the UC education system through and through, he received his B.A. from UC Riverside, his M.A. from UC Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from UCLA.

Dr. Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of the novel Under Your Wings (published by Viking Australia in July this year) and two fantasy novels - The Oddfits and its sequel The More Known World. She has also translated two Indonesian novels into English (Dee Lestari’s Paper Boats and Laksmi Pamuntjak’s The Birdwoman’s Palate). She received her B.A. in English from Wellesley College in 2004 and her Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley in 2009.