Wednesday, March 29, 2023 5:30pm – 7:30pm i n honor of Women’s History Month, Sausalito Books By The Bay presents Celebration of Women: Mind, Body & Soul, a special panel discussion exploring female autonomy, health and well-being - at work, at home, in our body and mind.

How have things changed for women over the decades? What are the current challenges? How do we counter these challenges while maintaining a healty balance and thrive? It promises to be an inspired discussion with a dynamic panel of talented, accomplished and diverse Bay Area authors, educators and activists—guided by the luminary community bookstore Sausilito Books By The Bay

Acharya Shunya: author of three books (Avurveda Lifestyle Wisdom, Sovereign Self and Roar Like a Goddess) honoring Vedic roots while breaking shackles of tradition.

September Williams: physician-writer, bioethicist, and filmmaker. Author of Chasing Mercury (a novel) and The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking.

Cathy Rath: educator at SF State [womens heath and community health organizing); social justice activist advocating for public health and prevention for violence against women; novelist (Ripple Effect).

Lara Bazelon: USF law professor, writer (author of the non-fiction book Ambitious Like a Mother: Why Prioritizing Your life is Good for Your Kids), on-camera commentator for CNN, Good Morning America and NPR.

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt: author of two books on modern family planning & reproductive science and choices (In Her Own Sweet Time and Reconceptions).

Free to attend but RSVP through Eventbrite here

September Williams will be at California Breastfeeding Coalition Gala honoring Pauline Sakamoto, MS, RN, PHN, being held in  Sacramento as a part of the California Breastfeeding Summit. Pauline Sakamoto is retiring as executive director of Mothers’ Milk Bank, San Jose after 25 years. Human Milk Bank -SJ was the flagship,  Mothers’ Milk Bank in the USA.

(Photo: Pauline Sakamoto, September Williams, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, and Susan Martinelli (BCLC, Marin County Clinics) at a reading of The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking at Book Passage, August 3, 2019 )

September Williams will be at California Breastfeeding Coalition Gala honoring Pauline Sakamoto, MS, RN, PHN, being held in  Sacramento as a part of the California Breastfeeding Summit. Pauline Sakamoto is retiring as executive director of Mothers’ Milk Bank, San Jose after 25 years. Human Milk Bank -SJ was the flagship,  Mothers’ Milk Bank in the USA.

(Photo: Pauline Sakamoto, September Williams, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, and Susan Martinelli (BCLC, Marin County Clinics) at a reading of The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking at Book Passage, August 3, 2019 )

Using her book , The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking, September Williams MD- Author and Bioethicist will guide the class through the process of bioethical analysis and the power of Narrative Bioethics. She will apply these to the crisis associated with inadequate access to human breast milk— by focusing on inadequate time, place and space for breastfeeding fostering a vicious cycle of heath disparities.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: I'm Bringing THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM:BIOETHICAL CONCERNS IN HUMAN MILK BANKING to the independent book store community beginning at the guiding light of community based readers BOOK PASSAGE CORTE MADERA, on Saturday, AUGUST 3, 2019, at 4PM. Joining me will be Pauline Sakamoto the founding director of Mothers Milk Bank San Jose — the organization to whom the proceeds from the sales will be allocated and Susan Martinelli of the California Breastfeeding Coalition—who is a lactation consultant with the County of Marin— my own home county.. Please join us, kids welcome, as we celebrate and promote the international WORLD BREAST FEEDING WEEK