NY Times Bestselling Author Sarah Smarsh to be Keynote Speaker at Rural Assembly Everywhere

We are very excited to announce that New York Times Bestselling author Sarah Smarsh will be a keynote speaker for Rural Assembly Everywhere this October.

Sarah Smarsh is a journalist who has covered socioeconomic class, politics and public policy for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation and many other publications. Her first book, “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth,” was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Smarsh was Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2018 and is a frequent speaker and commentator on economic inequality. Her new book, “She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs,” will be published in October 2020. She lives in Kansas.

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