A Graphic Memoir About Working With Youth [jjie.org]

Alicia Doktor 6/12/184:00 AM

I have worked since 1981 with teenagers who are homeless, runaways, addicted to drugs and alcohol, in the criminal justice system, former gang members and victims of abuse and neglect. I am now the director of Spectrum Youth and Family Services, the largest program in Vermont for this population.

I’ve written columns for Youth Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post and Forbes. I wrote a book that was published by Paulist Press in 2004.

Then I started telling stories on stage about my experiences with such youth and was featured on The Moth podcast as well as others such as Risk!, Strangers and The Lapse. A few months ago a good friend suggested that I put these stories down in the form of a graphic memoir.

[For more on this story by Mark Redmond, go to https://jjie.org/2018/06/11/a-...-working-with-youth/]

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