Leslie Jamison

"I think we need to recognize that there are all sorts of things that might condition students bringing different levels of comfort to the classroom. Not just gender, but things like educational background, class background, racial background, that all of these things just inflect what it means to move through the world, like on every level in contemporary America." Leslie Jamison on Free Food for Thought Shivani and Shiv sit down with novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison to talk about her take on personal narratives, teaching, and empathy in the writing process.