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SugarFree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance by Shari Walker

“SugarFree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance combines the difficult journey of foster youth through my perspective as both a social worker and former foster child. I interspersed poetry, personal narrative, humor, and real-life experiences for a theater experience that tugs at the heartstrings of our greatest human need to connect in the midst of the social welfare system’s inadequacies,” explained Walker.

Throughout June, the one-woman play will shine a spotlight on the unique and life-limiting struggles that foster youth face when transitioning out of foster care. And who better to tell the story than someone who has lived it and now advocates for these young adults. Shari Walker is the writer, producer, and actress of SugarFree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance, which will be performed on five dates in June. Walker overcame homelessness, domestic violence and lack of guidance and support to beat the staggering odds that work against youth when leaving the system.

Walker, who is now 28, now holds her Bachelor’s in Pan African American Social Science and is pursuing her Master’s of Social Work.  She is active in a number of non-profit initiatives focused on improving foster care, including Foster Nation and The National Foster Youth Institute led by U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, and received the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Diversity Scholarship.

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