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Participants Reading #31

Meet Our Readers: Karen Skalitzky

  • Sara Ross Witt

Sara Ross Witt

21 Jan 2011
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Karen Skalitzky is the author of A Recipe for Hope: Stories of Transformation by People Struggling with Homelessness (ACTA Publications, 2006).

An educator by trade, she works as a Reading Specialist and coaches teachers and principals in both underserved and high achieving public schools.

Join Tuesday Funk at Hopleaf's upstairs bar to hear Karen and all of our amazingly talented readers on February 1, 2011!

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Jitesh Jaggi

Meet the Readers: Jitesh Jaggi

Jitesh Jaggi is a dancer and poet from India. He ended his career in Finance one day when he lost all his data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet and realized that he just didn't care. That tipping point led him to becoming a storyteller
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Chef/percussionist/writer Alan Lake

Meet the Readers: Alan Lake

Chef/percussionist/writer/reprobate and lover of all things beautiful & delicious, Chef Alan Lake's culinary career includes East Bank Club in Chicago; Sunset Marquis in W. Hollywood; Izakaya Hiwatta in Ichinomia Japan and legendary nightclub Purpur in Zurich, Switzerland. Working around the world for over four decades,
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JH Palmer and friend

Meet the Readers: JH Palmer

J.H. Palmer is a Gapers Block alumna. She has performed at numerous storytelling venues in Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, and New York City, and she produced a nonfiction literary series called That’s All She Wrote from 2012 to 2017. Her work has appeared in Hypertext Review, Chicago Story Press,
01 Oct 2025 1 min read
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