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SUMMARY:Written in the Waters: An Evening with National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Tara Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Juneteenth! National Geographic Explorer and 
 storyteller Tara Roberts follows a team on a quest to document and identify 
 sunken slave shipwrecks. Part adventure story\, part scientific log and 
 part personal memoir\, “Written in the Waters” catalogues Tara’s 
 journey with divers\, historians and archeologists who are searching the 
 Middle Passage for the wrecks of ships that carried enslaved Africans. A 
 book sale and signing will follow the event. Cosponsored by The Alden. 
 \n\nABOUT TARA ROBERTS\n\nTara Roberts is a National Geographic 
 Explorer-in-Residence. She has spent the last few years diving with and 
 telling stories about Black scuba divers as they searched for and helped 
 document slave shipwrecks around the world. Her journey was turned into a 
 National Geographic-produced podcast called “Into the Depths” and 
 featured in the March issue of National Geographic. Tara became the first 
 Black female explorer ever to be featured on the cover of the magazine. And 
 in 2022\, she was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. 
 Tara was also named a Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab in 2019. She 
 spent her early career years working as an editor for women and teen 
 magazines like Essence and CosmoGirl.\n\nINVITE\n\nThis author presentation 
 is at The Alden at the McLean Community Center\, 1234 Ingleside Ave.\, 
 McLean\, VA 22101. Registration is required to attend. Register each person 
 attending this event.
LOCATION:McLean Community Center/The Alden
ORGANIZER;CN="Admin Program Department Staff":MAILTO:liblibraryevents@fairfaxcounty.gov
CATEGORIES:Author Event, Black History 
CONTACT;CN="Admin Program Department Staff":MAILTO:liblibraryevents@fairfaxcounty.gov
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