177 Lovers & The One Who's Gonna See You Through - EP553

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John Steven Welch loves writing and has pursued different forms of it throughout his life. Welch holds a doctorate in art history from Princeton University with his dissertation on nineteenth-century British photographer, Roger Fenton. He also holds a master’s from Princeton and a bachelor’s from Columbia University (GS). Welch has authored numerous articles and served as assistant editor and author for a special issue of on the State of Black Museums, The Public Historian, August 2018.

An art historian with 15+ years of museum experience including positions as: Director of Education, Program Manager, and Administrator. His work as a Museum Educator focused on strategic planning, community outreach, K-12 program development, museum volunteer (docent) training and management, and audience engagement.

Turning now to fiction, Welch has produced a debut novel which charts an urban black Youth’s coming of age in Washington, D.C., during the 1960s and 70s. It blurs the line between literary and commercial fiction, written from the perspective of a gay Black man coming to term with his sexuality, race, and class—a story about unique paths of love and difference leading to elevation and, ultimately, self-actualization.

http//jswelchbooks.com

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Dr. Leanna Wolfe’s sex research was spirited by coming of age in the thick of the 1970s sexual revolution and feminist movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her curiosities and academic appetites led her engage in field research in Mexico, Africa, India and Papua New Guinea, earning an MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research and a PhD in Sexology from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. From 1980 to 2018 she worked as a university professor teaching and researching topics ranging from orgasm, multiple partner sexualities and sexual assault. In 2016 she launched Wise Woman Sex and Relationship Consulting, providing counseling through her unique lens of Sexual Anthropology.