Moderators
Megan Lambert is a senior lecturer in children’s literature at Simmons University. She writes and reviews for Kirkus Reviews and the Horn Book and is a consultant with Embrace Race: A Community about Race and Kids. She is an award-winning author of children’s picture books like...
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Presenters
Lisa Cline-Ransome is the award-winning author of multiple children’s picture books such as Satchel Paige, Young Pele, Before She Was Harriet, and more. Her latest release is the “detail-rich” (Kirkus Reviews) picture book biography of Katherine Johnson, Counting the Stars...
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Hayley Barrett is the author of the picture book Babymoon (illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal), which follows a new family as they welcome a child into the world. She is also the author of What Miss Mitchell Saw (illustrated by Diana Sudyka), a nonfiction account of Nantucket astronomer...
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Gloria Respress-Churchwell is a children’s author, documentarian, and both a fiction and nonfiction writer. Her documentary and fictional history of Robert Churchwell, the “Jackie Robinson of Journalism,” is now on permanent display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African...
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Growing up, Navy “brat” Karlin Gray lived in ten houses and attended eight schools. Since then, she has worked in a variety of jobs in Florida, Virginia, New York and Connecticut. Gray is the author of Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still and An Extraordinary Ordinary Moth...
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