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Words can change the world

By Jordan Magaziner Steinfeld, Staff writer | February 25, 2020

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Friday, March 13, 11:56 am

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Kathy Parven, Barbara Pauly and Sylvia Brody

Editor's Note: Words Change the World has been postponed due to the growing concerns around COVID-19. Find updates here.

Congregation Emanu El Sisterhood, in partnership with the Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation and Houston Public Library, will hold its annual fundraising event, Words Change the World, March 26 at 11:30 a.m. The event at Congregation Emanu El will feature humanitarian Barbara Pierce Bush in a moderated Q&A focusing on her life as a daughter and granddaughter of presidents, her global health initiative, and literacy. A Yale University graduate, she is co-founder of Global Health Corps and co-author of Sisters First, a bestseller written with her twin sister Jenna Bush Hager. Co-chairs are Kathy Parven and Shelley Wisner. See emanuelhouston.org. Pictured are (from left) Kathy Parven, Barbara Pauly and Sylvia Brody volunteering with the Friends of the Houston Public Library at the Book Warehouse. The Book Warehouse welcomes volunteers ages 13 and up; see connect4literacy.org.

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