Category: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Cartaya
Pablo
Pablo Cartaya is an internationally acclaimed author, screenwriter, speaker, and educator. His work has b…
Carver
Willie
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. is an advocate, a Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and the author of a bests…
Chan
Michelle Jing
Michelle Jing Chan is a queer Chinese American author-illustrator who grew up in Colorado and now lives i…
Charlton-Trujillo
e.E.
Described as a “force of nature” by Kirkus Reviews, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo is unquestionably one of the m…
Chava Stein
Abby
Abby Stein is a Jewish educator & rabbi, award winning author, speaker, and activist. She was born an…
Christmas
Johnnie
Johnnie Christmas is a #1 New York Times Best Selling graphic novelist. His 2022 middle grade graphic nov…
Conklin
Lydi
Lydi Conklin (they/them) has received a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Foundation…
Cummings
Deedee
As a therapist, attorney, CEO of Make A Way Media, and author of fifteen children’s books, Deedee Cumming…
Darznik
Jasmin
Jasmin Darznik is the bestselling author of The Bohemians, a novel that imagines the friendship between p…
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Lucky
Lucky Diaz is a bilingual, songwriting, taco-eating, multi–Latin Grammy Award–winning, Grammy-nominated a…
Duncan
Violet
Violet Duncan is Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation. As an accomplished author, educator, dan…
Egawa
Chenoa
Chenoa Egawa is Coast Salish of the Lummi and S’Klallam Nations of Washington State. She is a published a…