Girls Preparatory School students listen in this file photo.Homa Tavangar, author and advocate for global citizenship, will be in Chattanooga to speak to students at Girls Preparatory School on Feb. 25-26.
Her presentation on Wednesday, Feb. 25, “Parenting Global Citizens,” will be open to the public. The talk begins at 7 p.m. at the school, 205 Island Ave.
Tavangar is the author of the highly acclaimed “Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be at Home in the World,” which was named “Best New Parenting Book” by Scholastic Parent & Child magazine. Her newest book, co-authored with Becky Mladic Morales, is “The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners.”
Tavangar was involved in the release of the documentary “Girl Rising,” and is on the executive board of the Committee of Tahirih Justice Center, which protects immigrant women and girls fleeing violence.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA with a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University. She has been an adviser to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and has worked with organizations ranging from the World Bank and PBS to Kidshealth.org.
For more information, call 423-634-7659.