Hickman Speaker Series 2022-2

Oak Knoll Authors in Conversation

Join Oak Knoll alums, classmates, and authors Terri Trespicio '91 and Elisabeth Egan '91 for a lively and entertaining conversation to celebrate the launch of Terri’s new book, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You (Atria/Simon & Schuster).

Free and open to the public.

Who: Adults
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 7 p.m.
Where: Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child
Choral Music Room
44 Blackburn Road, Summit, NJ 07901

Sponsored by Oak Knoll School's The Hickman Speaker Series

About the Speakers:

Elisabeth Egan '91

Elisabeth Egan is an editor at the New York Times Book Review and the author of A Window Opens, a novel told from the perspective of a lifelong book lover. She was Glamour’s books editor for six years and was the co-writer and co-host of “Broken Harts,” a narrative nonfiction podcast about two mothers who drove their six children off a cliff in 2018. She is a former senior editor at Amazon Publishing and books editor at Self magazine, and earlier in her career worked at both Workman Publishing and Simon & Schuster. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Glamour, O, Real Simple, and People.

Terri Trespicio '91

Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life That Matters to You (Atria / Simon & Schuster, December 2021)—named “One of the Best Feel Good Books of the Year” by The Washington Post. Her TEDx talk, Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has more than 7 million views and Hubspot named her one of the “Top 18 female speakers who are killing it.”  A former magazine editor and radio host at Martha Stewart, she has appeared on the Today show, Dr. Oz, The Early Show, The Anderson Cooper Show—as well as Oprah magazine, Inc.com, and Business Insider. A national conference speaker Terri was rated #1 by attendees at Barron’s and How Design Live—and has performed stand-up comedy all over New York City. A certified facilitator in the Gateless Writing Method, Terri leads workshops for helping people tap their best ideas. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, won first place for creative nonfiction in the Baltimore Review’s 2016 literary contest. Terri lives in Manhattan. More at territrespicio.com.