Michelle kuo reading with patrick6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading with Patrick is being published by Random House and will be released on July 11, 2017. Michelle’s new memoir chronicles their time together grappling with Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin and what privilege and inequality truly mean. Devastated, Michelle returned to Helena and spent the next seven months visiting, reading, and writing with Patrick as he awaited trial in jail. But three years later, as she was about to graduate, she found out that Patrick had been accused of murder. ![]() ![]() While she was eager to stay in the Delta and commit herself to teaching, her future called-she decided to attend Harvard Law School as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and said goodbye to Patrick and the Delta. There, on the border of Mississippi, in one of the poorest counties in the United States, Michelle got to know Patrick Browning, a student who took to her rigorous teaching methods and excelled against the odds of his circumstances. Long before Michelle Kuo (2007 Fellow) was a student at Harvard Law School, a law clerk for the Ninth Circuit, or a Skadden Fellow for La Raza in Oakland, she was a member of Teach for America in Helena, Arkansas. ![]()
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