NEWS RELEASE

For Release: February 27, 2014

Media Contact: Alicia Steger516.572.9634Email: alicia.steger@ncc.eduncc.edu/releases

Nassau Community College Presents

Orange is the New Black - Author Piper Kerman

 

March 17

Garden City, NY – Piper Kerman, the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, will present Orange is the New Black on Monday, March 17 at 11:00 a.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the College Center Building at Nassau Community College.  Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, the adaptation of which has proven to be a wildly popular Netflix television series, has been called the yuppies’ view of prison.  Kerman is a consultant to the show. Born into a Boston clan of doctors, lawyers and teachers, she was a graduate of Smith College when she had a very brief, very careless dalliance into the world of drug trafficking. Following a plea deal for her crime, Kerman spent over a year in the infamous women’s correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut. In her memoir, she takes readers into B-Dorm, a community of eccentric, vividly drawn women whose lives are marked by physical abuse, mental illness and addiction.   Today, Kerman is a married mother of a toddler. She served on the board of the Women’s Prison Association, an advocacy group, and currently works for a public interest communications firm.Orange is the New Black — which is sponsored by the NCC Cultural Program — is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled. For more information about the program, call 516.572.7148.Ref: 1721.2/27/14/180About Nassau Community College Nassau Community College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution where nearly 23,000 full- and part-time students and approximately 10,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education.  More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island.  As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence. Visit www.ncc.edu for more information.