Stay Tuned for Summer 2024…
2024 book launch events are being scheduled now. More very soon! If you would like to book Jessica for a speaking event, go to the contact page and reach out to her speaking agent (for paid events), publicity team (for bookstore events), or the contact form (for book clubs, etc.).
Past Events
Tuesday, August 4, Brazos Bookstore, 7pm CST: LINK
with Megan Kimble, Senior Editor at the Texas Observer and author of Unprocessed, Ashley Faye of Refugee Services of Texas, and Elena Korbut of Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston
Thursday, August 6, Bookends & Beginnings, noon CST: LINK
with Wendy Pearlman, author most recently of We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled, featuring the work of GirlForward and World Relief Chicago
Tuesday, August 11, Instagram Live with Kate Bowler, 4:30 CST
Instagram: @katecbowler and @jessica_goudeau
Monday, August 17, BookPeople, 7pm CST: LINK
with Helen Thorpe, author most recently of The Newcomers, featuring the work of Refugee Services of Texas and iAct
Wednesday, August 19, LIRS Virtual Book Series, 2pm CST: LINK
Tuesday, August 25, Image Journal Summer Stage, 3pm CST: LINK
with Dina Nayeri, author most recently of The Ungrateful Refugee
Thursday, August 27, “We Welcome Refugees,” 4pm CST: LINK
with Tess Clarke
Friday, August 28, “Women of Welcome,” 12pm CST: LINK
with Sarah Quezada, author of Love Undocumented
Thursday, September 17, Neighbors for Refugees Event, 12pm EST: LINK
with Nazanine Scheuer, Senior Director of Partnership and Innovation at Save the Children
Thursday, September 17, Journey’s End Refugee Services, 7pm EST: LINK
with several special guests
Tuesday, September 22, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 12 pm EST: LINK.
with Shaun Casey, director of the center and professor of practice at Georgetown
Monday, October 19, Get Out the Vote for Refugees with the Mandy Patinkin and the Biden Campaign, 7 pm EST: LINK
with Kathryn Grody and several other special guests, hosted by Voice for Refuge
Friday, October 23, HIAS Book Club, 12 pm EST: LINK
with Rabbi Rachel Grant-Meyer
Saturday, October 24, RST Book Club, 10am CST: LINK
with Ashley Faye
Saturday, October 24, Northwest Regional Refugee Roundtable, 9-12am MST: LINK
with Danielle Mayfield
Tuesday, October 27, Arrive Ministries, “The Story of Refuge,” 12 pm: LINK
with Mike Bergman, Director
Thursday, October 29, World Relief Memphis book club, 7:30 pm CST: LINK
Tuesday, November 10, “Border Stories: Immigration, Refuge, and Justice,” Texas Book Festival Panel,
11:30-12:15 pm CST: LINK
with Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo (The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border), and Francisco Cantú (contributor to anthology Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy)
Thursday, November 12, The Loft Literary Center, 2pm CST: LINK
with Kao Kalia Yang, author most recently of Somewhere in the Unknown World (forthcoming November 11)