Meet Dr. Elaine Richardson, author of From PHD to Ph.D: How Education Changed My Life. Her redemptive story recounts her desperate life of drugs and prostitution on the streets of Cleveland to her academic success and completion of her doctorate degree.
Dr. Richardson has written books on the studies of American Black-language patterns. She taught at the University of Minnesota and Pennsylvania State University before returning to her home state in 2007 to accept a tenured professorship in Literacy Studies in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Richardson's book is an encouragement to others that you can overcome seemingly impossible odds to make a better life.
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Following her talk, books will be available for sale and signing. For more information, please call 216-991-2030.