An Alliance native and former Carnation Queen will be the keynote speaker Aug. 2 at the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival’s Community Luncheon.
The event, planned at 11:30 a.m. at University of Mount Union’s Hoover-Price Campus Center, will feature Dr. Maryam Jahdi, a psychiatrist who works and teaches in New York City. Jahdi works for the New York State Office of Mental Health as assistant director of forensic services at Bronx Psychiatric Center. She also is associate program director of the forensic psychiatry fellowship program and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
Jadhi was the 2000 Carnation Festival queen, and graduated from Regina Coeli Elementary School and St. Thomas Aquinas High School.
In her spare time, Jadhi enjoys dancing, international travel, attending Broadway and other performing arts shows, and returning to Ohio regularly to see her family, including her two young nieces.
The Carnation Festival’s luncheon also will include naming of the Favazzo-Jeswald Founders Award, the Grand Parade marshal and the city’s Citizen of the Year.
Tickets, $15, are available now at CompuTek Computer, 703 S. Union Ave. in Alliance. Tables of six can be purchased for $90.
This article originally appeared on The Alliance Review: Carnation Festival luncheon to feature ex-queen who is a psychiatrist
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