Experience riveting dialogue between Dr. LaDonna Butler, CEO of The Well for Life, and Dr. Martha Bireda - moderated by Dalia Colon of The Zest Podcast. Dine on a southern-prepared meal, including collards, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, and peach cobbler, on a primitive family campground.

About Martha R. Bireda, Ph.D.

Dr. Bireda is the author of over 12 non-fiction books, The Womb Rebellion tells the story of enslaved women who refused to engage in the process of slave-breeding. Her second historical fiction book, My Brother’s Keeper, tells the story of the numbers racket and its positive influence on the African American community during the Jim Crow Era.

Martha R. Bireda, Ph.D., is a writer, lecturer, and living history performer. She has over 30 years of experience as a lecturer, consultant, and trainer for issues related to race, class, and gender issues, working with educators, law enforcement, business, and civic leaders.

Dr. Bireda is a writer, lecturer, and living history performer who firmly believes that sharing “untold and untaught” accurate history can heal racial and cultural differences. She facilitates six-week workshops, “Healing Conversations on Race,” focusing on participants experiencing and expressing “human completeness,” empathy, compassion, and the release of mythical concepts about one’s own and the racial identity of “the other.”