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SUMMARY:Brownstone Manhattan Supper Club\, Sept. 29\, 2026 : Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia
DESCRIPTION:SHARE | PRINT | EMAILBrownstone Manhattan/NYC Supper Club \nTuesday\, September 29\, 2026 | 5:30 – 9 pm \nCarmine’s | 2450 Broadway\, between 90th and 91st Streets in Manhattan \nSpeaker: Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia \nThe cost is $85 for the dinner\, not including drinks\, which can be purchased at the bar.  \nWe will meet at the bar from 5:30-6 p.m. and then go into the Bellini Room at 6 p.m. for the dinner.  \nSpeaker bio \nMiriam Eckenfels-Garcia is the Director of Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless program. She leads a team of litigators and researchers focused on protecting children and the environment from the harms of wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation. Miriam is an international lawyer with a background in corporate accountability and international human rights law. Throughout her career\, she has worked for various human rights organizations in Europe and the U.S.\, where she focused on mechanisms to hold corporate actors accountable for egregious violations of human rights. After seven years of running pro bono research projects and international fellowships for the Public Interest Law Center at NYU School of Law\, she joined CHD in 2021 to build and run its educational fellowship program and to fight against the unchecked expansion of wireless infrastructure – pushed by big telecom and special interests – that harms our health\, the environment\, and our privacy autonomy. \nProgram description \nThe Federal Cell Tower Takeover: Federal agencies and Congress are pushing major policy changes that will allow industry to place cell towers and antennas virtually anywhere in America — including near homes and schools\, on neighborhood playgrounds\, and in front of your church. All with no informed consent\, no safety oversight\, and an industry shielded from liability. And you and your town will have no say in the decision making. Learn about the negative impacts of cell towers on health and the environment and join a discussion about what you can do to stop unwanted towers in your community.
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Charlotte\, NC Supper Club\, September 29\, 2026: Sheila Furey
DESCRIPTION:SHARE | PRINT | EMAILCharlotte Brownstone Supper Club \nTuesday\, September 29\, 2026\, 6:00pm – 9:00pm \nNapa on Providence\, 110 Perrin Pl\, Charlotte\, NC 28207 \nSpeaker: Sheila Furey \n$48 per person includes meal\, soda or tea\, venue fees\, tax\, and gratuity. Gluten Free & Vegetarian options included. Cash bar available.\n \nDr. Sheila Furey\nCan You Still Teach a Child to Think? \nA generation is being asked to decide what is true before it has been taught how to follow a thought. Attention is fractured. Working memory is thin. Logical sequencing\, the ability to hold a chain of evidence from premise to conclusion\, is treated as optional. Into that vacancy rush political slogans\, institutional jargon\, school scripts\, and coercive propaganda that do not survive five minutes of honest questioning. \nOn Tuesday\, September 29\, the Charlotte Brownstone Supper Club welcomes Dr. Sheila Furey\, a Richmond child\, adolescent\, and adult psychiatrist who has spent more than twenty-six years in the room with the children produced by those systems\, and who has spent the last several years teaching brains how to work again. \nCome early. Mix with friends of Brownstone. Dinner\, then a talk that will unravel the tangles that truncate critical thinking\, followed by Q&A. \nAbout the Talk \nCan You Still Teach a Child to Think?\n \nWhat schools and screens have done to attention\, working memory\, and logical sequencing\, and why a generation that cannot hold a chain of evidence is easy to capture by slogans. \nDr. Furey will speak as a clinician\, not a commentator. She will describe what she sees when a child’s mind cannot keep a sequence\, cannot weigh competing claims\, and cannot sit still long enough to test a story against reality. She will connect that cognitive collapse to classrooms that reward feeling over analysis\, to devices that train the brain for interruption\, and to professional cultures that replaced differential diagnosis with affirmation. \nThis is not a lament about “kids these days.” It is a practical argument: the capacity to think is biological\, trainable\, and being systematically neglected. A mind that cannot hold evidence will outsource judgment to whoever speaks with the most confidence. That is how mandates\, identity scripts\, and one-size-fits-all protocols move through a population that still believes it is thinking for itself. \nShe will also talk about what can be rebuilt. She has spent years using neuroplasticity-based cognitive work\, strengthening processing\, memory\, reasoning\, and executive function\, so children and adults can do the one thing institutions now discourage: follow a line of evidence to the end. \nAbout Dr. Sheila Furey \nDr. Sheila Furey is a child\, adolescent\, and adult psychiatrist who has practiced in the Richmond area for more than twenty-six years. Her passion for serving children led her to teach brain exercises that help children and adults overcome learning disabilities\, work that is changing lives by treating the organ of thought rather than merely managing its symptoms. \nIn 2022 she founded the Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance\, a coalition of healthcare professionals and citizens who first came together to educate the public about early treatment for Covid-19 and the safety questions surrounding the shots. That mission has widened: protecting informed consent\, bodily sovereignty\, and the doctor-patient relationship at every stage of development. \nBorn in Carroll\, Iowa\, she attended Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha and completed her residency and child psychiatry fellowship at Boston University Hospitals. She has worked in outpatient and inpatient settings\, residential treatment\, and the juvenile justice system\, and has testified as an expert witness. She has been married for 32 years to her husband Dennis. They have two adult daughters. \nBrownstone first welcomed her in North Carolina earlier this year. Charlotte gets the talk that asks the harder question underneath the policy fights: if the child’s mind cannot think\, no slogan about freedom will hold. \nVenue\, Location & Parking \nNapa on Providence\, 110 Perrin Pl\, Charlotte\, NC 28207. Private onsite parking. \nRegistration \n$48 per person includes meal\, soda or tea\, fees\, tax\, and gratuity. Ticket sales close three days prior to the event so be sure to secure your seat early! For more information contact Amber Santiago at supperclub@pm.me. Please include “Charlotte Supper Club” in the subject line.
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