Kay White Drew: STRESS TEST: A MEMOIR (with Susan Reslewic Keatley)

Join us for a conversation about Kay White Drew’s timely and gripping memoir, Stress Test, which chronicles Kay’s journey through medical training in 1970s Baltimore, navigating sexism, racism, and personal loss. In the wake of the Dobbs decision, her story resonates deeply with current conversations on women’s rights and equity in healthcare and education.

Writer, author, and scientist Susan Keatley will join Kay White Drew in conversation.

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Kay White Drew (a.k.a. Katherine White, M.D.) is a retired neonatologist and author of Stress Test (2024), a memoir about her medical training in 1970s Baltimore amid sexism and racism. Her work has appeared in New Verse News, Gargoyle and Loch Raven Review, where her essay was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Rockville, MD, with her husband and enjoys nature, road trips, and reading.

Susan Keatley has a Ph.D. in chemistry and has written about scientists, computational biology, cancer, and science education among other topics for The New York Times, the Simons Foundation, and the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Formerly a high school science teacher, she created and hosts the Science Fare podcast which connects specific classroom concepts to what real scientists do. She has been a moderator at the Newburyport Literary Festival and created the Manor Mill Prose Night author reading and open mic series in Monkton, MD. She writes fiction and is hopeful for her first novel which is on submission.