April, 15 2023

FOSTER CARE SYSTEM IN CRISIS

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
| Location of Session: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 1:30 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

After a murder-suicide in 2018, reporter Roxanna Asgarian (We Were Once a Family) spent years investigating the troubled foster care system in Texas and in the United States. A riveting narrative and indictment of a system that continues to fail America’s most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families.

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Photo Credit: Michael Starghill

Roxanna Asgarian

Roxanna Asgarian is a Texas-based journalist who writes about courts and the law for The Texas Tribune. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, New York, and Texas Monthly, among other publications. She received the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for We Were Once a Family.

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Cary Clack

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