Writer, Jori Lewis will be discussing and signing copies of her book, “Slaves for Peanuts”

1440 Monument Ave., Springfield, IL 
Saturday, October 29, 2022
at 1:30 pm

Jori Lewis is the daughter of retired Springfield Judge Theodis and Judy Lewis. She writes narrative non-fiction about the environment and agriculture, mostly on the Global South. Her reports and essays explore how people interact with their environments, focusing on the intersections between nature, history, and culture. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic Magazine, Discover Magazine, and Emergence Magazine, among others, and she is a senior editor at Adi Magazine, a literacy magazine of global politics. In 2022, she published her first book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, which was supported by the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress.

Jori holds a MJ from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a MA in the social sciences and a BA in anthropology, both from the University of Chicago. She splits her time between Illinois and Senegal. 

Copies of Jori Lewis’ book Slaves for Peanuts will be available for purchase.