Place of Hope will welcome Regina Calcaterra, best-selling author and New York attorney, to share her harrowing childhood, surviving the foster care system and homelessness, as part of Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
At a special appearance in Delray Beach, Calcaterra will speak on her New York Times best-selling memoirs, Etched in Sand, and recall how she and her four siblings persevered an abusive and painful experience in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons.
Place of Hope, the county’s largest children’s organization, works to provide safe and nurturing homes for Florida’s foster youth. Calcaterra’s story and triumphant professional and educational success speak directly to its mission of caring for the next generation of leaders, who find themselves without their families, due to abuse, neglect or abandonment.
“We work with children who, unfortunately, are without the stable, loving homes that they deserve,” said Place of Hope Founding Executive Director Charles Bender. “Amazing women like Ms. Calcaterra illustrate what the community can do for youth who might otherwise be lost in the system or on the streets. Caring individuals can lend their talents to support the next attorney, doctor or author.”
Presented by Merrill Lynch’s The Miller Wachtler Group, Calcaterra’s engagement, will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 12, 2017, at Seagate Country Club, 3600 Hamlet Drive, Delray Beach, FL 33445. Ticket price is $75. To order tickets, visit www.placeofhoperinker.org/events
Calcaterra’s memoir, Etched in Sand appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers lists for 16 weeks during 2013-14, rising to #2 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s Non-Fiction E-Books Best Sellers list and #6 on the New York Times Non-Fiction Combined Print & E-Books list.
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