Dining with Deb is returning to New Orleans on International Women's Day, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, with a RIVETING program. A Conversation with Michelle Miller will dive into her upcoming book, BELONGING: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love.

Few people in Michelle’s life knew the painful secret she carried. Her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother--a Chicana hospital administrator who was white presenting, had kept her affair with Michelle's father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton's first Black city councilman-hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Michelle revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped her understanding of herself and her own Blackness. What emerges is an intimate family story about secrets—secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.



Belonging is the chronicle of Michelle's decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother.

TICKETS INCLUDE A RECEPTION WITH LIGHT BITES AND BEVERAGES AT THE FOUR SEASONS HOTEL STARTING AT 5:30 PM WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO NETWORK WITH PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY. “A CONVERSATION WITH MICHELLE” FOLLOWS AT 7:00 PM.

Everyone will receive an autographed copy of

BELONGING: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love

by Michelle Miller.

About Michelle Miller



Michelle Miller is an Emmy, Gracie, DuPont, and Murrow award-winning journalist who co-hosts CBS Saturday Morning. She first joined CBS News in 2004, and her work is also regularly featured on CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, and CBS Evening News. She has also appeared as a correspondent on 48 Hours.

Dining with Deb™ was created by women, for women, celebrating women.

Developed by Deb Elam Grant, retired President of the GE Foundation and now President & CEO of the global consulting firm, Corporate Playbook™, Dining with Deb™ is an experience that brings together professional women, deliberately crossing racial, religious, age, and political barriers while driving meaningful connections and conversations.

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