September 23, 2022

Welcoming Julie Lythcott-Haims

Tuesday, October 18 | 7-8pm
Oakwood Secondary Campus Community Room
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Oakwood is honored to welcome Julie Lythcott-Haims for a conversation on overparenting and raising preteens and teens to be self-sufficient young adults. Haim’s work encompasses writing, speaking, teaching, mentoring, and activism. She is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, the critically-acclaimed memoir Real American, and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, which has been called a “groundbreakingly frank” guide to adulthood.

Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. Julie holds degrees from Stanford, Harvard Law, and California College of the Arts. She currently serves on the boards of Common Sense Media, Black Women’s Health Imperative, Narrative Magazine, and on the Board of Trustees at California College of the Arts. She serves on the advisory boards of LeanIn.Org, Parents magazine and Baldwin For the Arts. 

She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother.