September Williams will be at California Breastfeeding Coalition Gala honoring Pauline Sakamoto, MS, RN, PHN, being held in  Sacramento as a part of the California Breastfeeding Summit. Pauline Sakamoto is retiring as executive director of Mothers’ Milk Bank, San Jose after 25 years. Human Milk Bank -SJ was the flagship,  Mothers’ Milk Bank in the USA.

(Photo: Pauline Sakamoto, September Williams, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, and Susan Martinelli (BCLC, Marin County Clinics) at a reading of The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking at Book Passage, August 3, 2019 )

September Williams will be at California Breastfeeding Coalition Gala honoring Pauline Sakamoto, MS, RN, PHN, being held in  Sacramento as a part of the California Breastfeeding Summit. Pauline Sakamoto is retiring as executive director of Mothers’ Milk Bank, San Jose after 25 years. Human Milk Bank -SJ was the flagship,  Mothers’ Milk Bank in the USA.

(Photo: Pauline Sakamoto, September Williams, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, and Susan Martinelli (BCLC, Marin County Clinics) at a reading of The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking at Book Passage, August 3, 2019 )

The National Writers Union is a union that supports Freelance Writer, illustrators, editors and our working conditions and those of other working people. Join me and others at the National Writers Northern ( AFL-CIO/UAW 1981) California table at the Zine Book Fair. As you all may have noticed - our parent union is under seize as are working women and men from Teachers in Chicago to Factory Workers struggling to hold onto those gains in working/life conditions and to make them better.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: I'm Bringing THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM:BIOETHICAL CONCERNS IN HUMAN MILK BANKING to the independent book store community beginning at the guiding light of community based readers BOOK PASSAGE CORTE MADERA, on Saturday, AUGUST 3, 2019, at 4PM. Joining me will be Pauline Sakamoto the founding director of Mothers Milk Bank San Jose — the organization to whom the proceeds from the sales will be allocated and Susan Martinelli of the California Breastfeeding Coalition—who is a lactation consultant with the County of Marin— my own home county.. Please join us, kids welcome, as we celebrate and promote the international WORLD BREAST FEEDING WEEK