Mark Redmond to Speak at Warren Church ~ Sunday, May 29 @ 10am

Mark Redmond has worked in the field of caring for homeless and at-risk youth for over 40 years. He is presently executive director of Spectrum Youth & Family Services in Burlington, Vermont.   He has published columns in Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Commonweal, The National Catholic Reporter and America.  He has told stories for The Moth Radio Hour as well as other podcasts such as The Lapse, Strangers and Risk!  A story he told for WGBH’s Stories from the Stage played on most public television stations around the United States, and his one-person show on Broadway, So Shines a Good Deed, premiered in October 2019. Six days later his one-person show The Moustache Diaries premiered at The Flynn Space in Burlington. He has performed on stage in Boston, Brooklyn, Montreal and Burlington. His first book, The Goodness Within: Reaching out to Troubled Teens with Love and Compassion, was published in 2004 by Paulist Press. His latest book, Called: A Memoir was published by Onion River Press in May 2021. Mark graduated from Villanova University with a degree in business administration in 1979 and from New York University with a masters in public administration in 1986. Mark lives in Essex, Vermont with his wife Marybeth and son Liam. www.markredmondbooks.com Recent Commentary on VTDigger: Mark Redmond: Vermont’s ideology prevents humane mental health care