Please join us for a very special evening with guest author, Judy Stavisky, MPH, M.Ed. We will be screening the film Amish Grace, followed by a reading from Judy’s new book In Plain View: The Daily Lives of Amish Women. Books will be available for purchase and signing. The evening will be hosted by none other than our illustrious founder, Hank Paper. There is a suggested donation of $10.

Judy Stavisky, MPH, M.Ed. lives outside Philadelphia. She and her husband developed a curiosity about the Amish while riding bicycles in rural Lancaster County, PA. Prior to writing a book about Amish women, Judy had a long career in identifying promising programs for vulnerable populations. She served as the National Executive Director of Friends of the Children, and managed a multimillion-dollar portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, creating academic pipelines for underserved students and supporting innovative community programs including The Diaper Bank of Connecticut. Judy is the author of In Plain View: The Daily Lives of Amish Women and the co-author of Do It Better! How the Kids of St. Francis de Sales Exceeded Everyone’s Expectations, highlighting the triumphs of students who arrived in Philadelphia as immigrants and refugees. Judy has taught at Drexel and Arcadia Universities and graduated from Yale School of Public Health.

Amish Grace - When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of a grieving mother, Ida Graber, and other devastated families, this movie explores the Amish's astonishing reaction to the horrific shootings - of forgiveness and compassion.