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Better Together: "El Doctorcito" Discussion featuring author Juan Guerra, MD

Better Together Virtual Community Dialogue: "El Doctorcito" Discussion
featuring children's book author Juan Guerra, MD & illustrator Victoria Castillo

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Countway Library Children & Youth Diversity and Health Literature Collection Launch

This Better Together dialogue is in partnership with Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library, home to the new Children & Youth Diversity and Health Literature Collection. This collection is now available for all Harvard affiliates with a valid Harvard ID to browse, borrow, and read with a young person in their lives! 

Better Together Virtual Community Dialogue "El Doctorcito" 
Thursday, March 9, 2023 | 1:30PM - 2:30PM

To watch the video click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q19BROpkd0Q

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Author Juan Guerra, MD
After serving for years as a staff physician partner and OB/GYN generalist at the Permanente Medical Group, Dr. Guerra retired from clinical practice and devotes his energy full-time to writing and family.  He brings the uplifting message of “El Doctorcito” to elementary school children and is working on his second children’s book.

Illustrator Victoria Castillo is an artist from Texas. She has illustrated kid lit and cover art for Arte Público Press, done editorial illustrations, created album covers and concept art for animated feature pitches.  She gets very excited by books and series that explore female identity, because it's still so important for media to present positive, flawed and funny female role models from different ethnicities, backgrounds, cultures and ages, and for girls to feel like they can be themselves while also being empowered by the talents and interests they nurture. She loves old sci-fi, caring for cactus and succulents, curating collections of dolls, books, toys, trains, clowns, vinyl records and monsters of various forms and sizes, and traveling whenever she can.

Get your copy of “El Doctorcito”!

Harvard Medical School’s Office for Diversity Inclusion & Community Partnership will raffle off 10 copies of “El Doctorcito” to participants after the event.

Frugal Bookstore, a community bookstore in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is offering a discount on “El Doctorcito” to event participants through March 31st.

Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library Children & Youth Diversity and Health Literature Collection

To browse the titles in the Children & Youth Diversity and Health Literature Collection, click HERE or use this QR code with your phone’s camera: