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Horses Like Lightning: The Story of Passage through the Himalayas
Wednesday, December 2 at 7:00 PM

Sienna Craig recounts her years spent living in the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang, Nepal, one of the world's more remote regions.

Craig was born in Santa Barbara, California, and educated at Brown University (BA 1995). She is the author of the children’s book Clear Sky, Red Earth: A Himalayan Story, A Sacred Geography: Sonnets of the Himalaya and Tibet, and Horses Like Lightning as well as numerous academic articles. For the past decade, Craig has been conducting research in Nepal and Tibetan areas of China, on topics ranging from Tibetan medicine and women’s health, to community development, labor migration and social change. She is the co-founder of DROKPA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to catalyzing grassroots development and social entrepreneurship in high Asia. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University (2006) and is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College. She lives in Vermont with her husband Ken and their daughter Aida. More at her web site.

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