Speaking:
T. Thomas Fortune Center
IFS Gun Violence Symposium
Dr. Shanda McManus speaks to medical schools, literary audiences, and community organizations on gun violence as a public health crisis, grief and narrative medicine, weathering and Black women's health, and the healing power of writing. Contact at shanda@shandamcmanus.com for inquiries.
Generation Women
MidWest Physician
Writers Conference
AWP 2026 Reading
GO RED Event with DELTA SIGMA THETA,INC MCAC
Listen:
Conversations about Brother Epistles, narrative medicine, grief, and weatherproofing Black women's health.
The Visible Voices Podcast — "Claiming Your Story" In conversation with Dr. Resa Lewiss on gun violence, compounding grief, narrative medicine, and why writing heals.
The Midday Break Room with Roxi Fab — WURD Radio, Philadelphia A hometown conversation about Brother Epistles, grief, and gun violence as a public health crisis.
Surgeon, Interrupted — "The Grief I Buried During Medical School Followed Me" In conversation with Dr. Frances Mei Hardin on compartmentalizing loss through medical training and what happens when the grief finally demands to be heard.
Mara Gordon, MD — "Sometimes you have to hurt to heal" On why medical education teaches doctors to keep working through loss, finding her "original voice" in the letters to Monir, and community-based programs as evidence-based tools to reduce gun violence.
PWN's Debut Review — "Always Writing" An early conversation with Project Write Now on the writing life, narrative medicine, and the memoir-in-letters that became Brother Epistles.
The League of Extraordinary Readers — "Discussing Grief and Loss" A wide-ranging conversation about Brother Epistles and the long work of grief.
Living Strong: The Flip Side of Adversity — "Black Women, Weathering, and How to Weatherproof for Health" With Veirdre Jackson, ed.D, on the science of weathering and the seven pillars of protecting Black women's health against chronic stress.