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An Up-Close and Personal Critique of Foster Care: "Three More Words" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Aired on Wednesday, July 1st.

Our guest today on ST is the child welfare advocate and author Ashley Rhodes-Courter (born 1985), whose first book, a memoir called "Three Little Words," began as a prize-winning high school essay, later appeared in The New York Times Magazine, and finally became a bestselling book. She joins us to speak about her new autobiographical work, which is called "Three More Words." As was noted of this volume at the goodreads.com website: "In [this] sequel to [her first] memoir...[the author] expands on life beyond the foster care system, the joys and heartbreak with a family she's created, and her efforts to make peace with her past.... Rhodes-Courter spent a harrowing nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes.... Now [she] reveals the nuances of life after foster care: college and its assorted hijinks, including meeting 'the one;' marriage, which began with a beautiful wedding on a boat that was almost hijacked (literally) by some biological family members; and having kids, from fostering children, and the heartbreak of watching them return to destructive environments, to the miraculous joy of blending biological and adopted offspring.... Rhodes-Courter never fails to impress or inspire with her authentic voice and uplifting message."

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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