Join us for an exciting evening with Claudia Kolker, author of The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America About Health, Happiness and Hope one of O Magazine's Ten Titles to Pick Up Now. A Harvard graduate and an award winning journalist, Kolker met many people from different culture while covering stories. Along the way, she discovered that immigrants had unique customs that gave them the “competitive edge” in life.  Claudia Kolker will share some of the interesting stories of these practices from her book.  She will also discuss how she has used this new found knowledge to live better, educate her children better and to live a healthier and happier life. Click on the link below to see her recent PBS interview:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june13/immigrant_01-02.html Fee:Member free with discount codeGuests/non-members: $25Become a member by registering at: http://awe2013hou.eventbrite.com  $100/yr Bio:Claudia Kolker is an award-winning reporter and the author of The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn From Newcomers to America About Health, Happiness and Hope (Simon and Schuster, 2011). Named one of O Magazine's Ten Titles to Pick Up Now, the book has been profiled in the New York Times and PBS News hour and was Amazon's number one best-selling book on immigration in January. As a freelancer in El Salvador from 1992-1995, she covered the Salvadoran postwar recovery and social issues throughout Central America, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. She later spent four months in India and Pakistan writing on democracy and diversity. In her adopted hometown of Houston, she has worked as Los Angeles Times Houston bureau chief, member of the Houston Chronicle editorial board, and deputy director of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders. She graduated from Harvard and has studied at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and El Colegio de Mexico. Her work has been published in O: The Oprah Magazine, The Economist, The Sunday Telegraph of London, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Slate, and Salon. She is currently a contributing editor for the editorial page of the Houston Chronicle, where she first created the immigrant affairs beat in 1997. She lives in Houston with her husband and two children. Meeting registration 25.00