On Thursday, December 16th, the Distinguished Speaker Series: hosted 2013 Washington Latin graduate St. Clair Detrick-Jules. This filmmaker and writer and photographer focuses on immigration, women’s rights, and African American culture and identity. She directed and produced the documentary DACAMENTED, about nine DACA recipients. She is also the author of My Beautiful Black Hair, featured this summer in Washingtonian. Earlier in the month, Detrick Jules met up Lisa Pegram, the former creative writing teacher at Latin. Pegrem, who helped advise her on publicity for her book. Pegram’s poetry manuscript, “White Flag,” was published in 2015 and she is an adjunct professor at the Lesley University creative writing MFA program.
