MPH’s Young featured in Next Nashville Storytellers Series
The next Nashville Storytellers event, “Through hell and back," will focus on our storytellers’ personal anecdotes about addiction and recovery. This live storytelling night, to be held Aug. 15 at Blair School of Music, will blend the authentic discipline of storytelling with the truthful, community-building power at the heart of great journalism.
Our featured storytellers will include:
- Trina Frierson, a recovering crack addict who founded Mending Hearts recovery village for women
- Betty Mason, whose 19-year-old daughter died from a heroin overdose in May
- Dr. Jessica Young, an assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University who runs Vanderbilt’s Drug Dependency Clinic for pregnant women
- Brad Schmitt, a recovering addict for six years
- Dr. William Richie, a Meharry Medical College psychiatrist who specializes in addiction.