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The May 19, 2025 In This Moment Book Launch & Panel Discussion featured Christopher Coles, sign language interpreter, community organizer, abolitionist, activist and spoken word poet, with essayist CaTyra Polland and photographer Dominique Alexandria Simmonds and Myra Mathis-Uwanogho MD, medical director and addiction psychiatry services program director and assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Rochester, with essayist Chris Thompson and photographer Chris Goodknews Cardwell.

The conversation was moderated by April Franklin.

Introductions by Amanda Chestnut, Nannette Nocon, and Bruce Barnes, PhD

Check out the In This Moment chapbooks at inthismoment585.org/!