Nina LaCour is the bestselling and Michael L. He’s proud to be a founding member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks team, and lives in Oakland, California, with his family. His books have been honored by the Bank Street College of Education, Children’s Book Council Reading Beyond List, Cooperative Children’s Book Center, Georgia State Book Awards, Iowa Children’s Choice Awards, Kansas State Reading Circle, National Parenting Publications Awards, Parents Choice Foundation, and Texas Bluebonnet Awards. Mike Jung is the author of Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities, Unidentified Suburban Object, and The Boys in the Back Row, and contributed to the anthologies Dear Teen Me, Break These Rules, 59 Reasons to Write, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and The Hero Next Door. Jacqueline is on the board of the SCBWI Illinois Equity and Inclusion Committee and is excited to continue to promote this in children’s literature and across the illustration field. Williams, which received four starred reviews, and her latest, Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos, which has so far received three starred reviews. In 2016 she received the We Need Diverse Books Illustrator Mentorship and now has four published picture books: The Field by Baptiste Paul, which was named a Best Book of 2018 by School Library Journal, Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, and Shelf Awareness Freedom Soup by Tami Charles, which received four starred reviews and was named a Kids IndieNext Pick and a Kirkus Best Book of 2019 Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Originally a high school art teacher, she began her career in illustration after being laid off. Jacqueline Alcántara is an illustrator and educator from Chicago. Samira is the New York Times bestselling author of Love, Hate, & Other Filters, Internment, and Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know. After she left the classroom, she worked in education non-profits, helping to create more than seventy small high schools in New York City. She received her BA and MAT from the University of Chicago and went on to teach high school English in both the suburbs of Chicago and the New York City Public Schools. Samira Ahmed was born in Bombay, India and raised outside of Chicago, Illinois. Keep up with Julie’s latest books and adventures at /julieabebooks or sign up for her newsletter at /newsletter. Julie Abe is the author of the Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch middle grade fantasy series and the young adult novel, The Charmed List.
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