Nancy's Bookshelf

Nancy's Bookshelf: Women who trained as lawyers carve out creative careers for themselves

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Former attorney and horse lover Donnaldson Brown, who puts together horses and people suffering from PTSD, has written a novel.

Attorney Scarlett Cochran, a teenage single mother, went on to get a law degree from Yale. In her book, she describes a proven path to building wealth.

Also, the fifth installment to a new segment called The Writer's Room, featuring short segments by North State authors.

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.