CANCELLED: Human Library Series: Get to Know an Immigrant
CANCELLED - Note: This even has been cancelled. Cinelle Barnes will appear at another Human Library event on July 27 at Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library.
John's Island Regional Library - Interested members of the community are asked to join us in a safe space to converse with law enforcement officers. For more information on the Human Library Series at Charleston County Public Library, and to see previous sessions in their entirety, visit our section on the Human Library Series.
Cinelle Barnes is a local Filipino author and educator who came to the United States as an unaccompanied minor and teenage adoptee. She aged out of naturalization benefits during the finalization of her adoption. Cinelle lived as an undocumented immigrant from 2004-2010, and she became an American citizen in 2017. She has since advocated for other immigrants and written two books about trauma, memory and life in the diaspora: "Monsoon Mansion" and the forthcoming essay collection, "Malaya." Barnes will read from "Monsoon Mansion" at the event, and copies will be available for sale.