Patricia Jabbeh Wesley’s home is Monrovia, Liberia.

Although she has lived in the United States for more than two decades, her life in Africa and having survived the Liberian civil war impacts her, and she will present “Writing as a Tool in Healing: A Living Experience” in a Brown Bag lecture at 12:15 p.m. today on the Alumni Hall porch.

“My writing has been almost taken over by my experience of the Liberian civil war and by watching from the outside as my country became completely destroyed and my people died for 12 more years after my flight,” Jabbeh Wesley said. “But I am glad that I am more than ‘that writer’ about war.”