Jamie Tworkowski, founder of To Write Love on Her Arms, will present to the University of Alabama at Birmingham community a short lecture, “Pain, Hope, Questions and Community.”
Student Involvement and Leadership and Student Counseling Services sponsor this event. The free lecture, rescheduled from the original date of Sept. 20, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, in the Hill Student Center Ballroom. A Q&A and meet-and-greet with Tworkowski will follow the lecture.
Tworkowski founded To Write Love on Her Arms in 2006 as a nonprofit group dedicated to helping those who suffer from depression, addiction, self-injury and suicidal tendencies to find hope, support and love. The group started as an attempt to tell the story of a friend in need of treatment and later became an internet phenomenon and global movement.
In 2010, Mashable named TWLOHA the “Must-Follow Non-Profit,” and in 2011, TWLOHA was awarded $1 million from the American Giving Awards. TWLOHA now has the largest online audience of any nonprofit on MySpace and Facebook and has donated more than $1 million to treatment and recovery organizations.
Tworkowski has been interviewed by NBC “Nightly News,” CNN, MTV and Spin magazine for his encouragement and exploits with TWLOHA. He offers a message of hope and community to audiences at universities and conferences throughout the United States.