Enjoy tea and cake with speaker, Leila Segal

Leila Segal is an author, advocate, and certified nursing assistant. She was caregiver to her husband, New York Times correspondent Rod Nordland, through six years of glioblastoma, and now advocates with brain cancer patients and caregivers, speaking to healthcare workers and students on the realities of the disease. Born in London, she trained as a barrister and went on to found Voice of Freedom, a charity through which survivors of human trafficking tell their lives in photography and text. She is the author of Breathe: Stories from Cuba and the memoir You Came Back, written during Rod's illness.