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River Huston, PhD

River Huston, PhD

Speaker, Author, Artist, Activist

River's College Topics Include:

Surviving the Weekend: Can You Drink Responsibly?
I give a frank and lively personal narrative of surviving my own problems with alcohol including an alcohol related sexual assault in my first year of college. I had to face how my dependence on alcohol had wreaked havoc in my life and make critical lifestyle changes.

I do not advocate abstinence from alcohol but rather informed choice responsibility and basic awareness. Through humor and audience participation I examine how to recognize the warning signs of alcohol abuse, how attitudes impact risky behavior and achieve a better understanding of how drugs and alcohol affect sexual decisions.

SEX 101: Beyond Safer Sex
This is another very interactive talk that addresses how negotiation, communication, intimacy and chemistry affect our sexuality. Through my personal experience of living with HIV for 16 years I talk about how to make safer sex not just a better choice but desirable one. I use inspiration in place of fear as a way to help students change their sexual behavior. I also include the reality of how alcohol and drugs affect our sexual choices and increase the possibility of sexual assault.

I do a combination of both programs in:

SEX 101: Surviving The Weekend
It is a lively interactive forum where we explore realistic options for college students when it comes to sex, alcohol and communication.

 If you are interested in something more performances oriented I do a one woman show called Sex, Cellulite and Large Farm Equipment: One Girls Guide to Living and Dying.

In this performances I use my life experiences that includes surviving two terminal illnesses, an arrest for obscenity, running a marathon, overcoming an eating disorder, the death of a spouse, being named poet laureate, getting married again and coming to a place of great contentment and joy. It is very funny at the same time educational.

River is also available for motivational Corporate programs.

River Huston is an award winning poet, journalist, performer and activist. She travels throughout the United States speaking at colleges, conferences, corporate events on issues related to overcoming challenges, communication and self-esteem.

She has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC, Nightline and CNN. She has a degree in Health Education and Music from Hunter College and was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Albright College for her work in the community.

River was given the Dorthea Lange/ Paul Taylor award for A Positive Life: Portraits Of Women Living With HIV and is the creator of Goddess: A New Guide to Feminine Wisdom. In 1995 she was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is the author of three books of poetry.

River has been speaking for the last 20 years. River uses her wealth of personal experience to present a message of hope, inspiration and motivation. She has survived two terminal illnesses, created an information network for others dealing with health issues, became an activist in the development of female controlled methods of prevention, ran a marathon, wrote, directed and performed in an off-off-Broadway production, given lectures around the world, written five books all while getting a weekly chemo-like intravenous treatment. She embodies determination, positive thinking and a life-affirming attitude that inspires you to get up and go for your dreams.

River is a member of the National Speakers Association.
 

 

Booking Info:  Gail Hand
(561) 807-7769 East Coast
(503) 284-2342 West Coast
gail@gailhand.com