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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 16, 2023 02:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Topic: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story Register in advance for this webinar: https://mackin.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JPAPVhwGS8-BMbNAS4f3cw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Aida Salazar (Author ) Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the middle grade verse novels "The Moon Within" (International Latino Book Award winner), "Land of the Cranes" (Américas Award winner), and the forthcoming biography picture book, "Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter." With Yamile Saied Méndez, she is slated to co-edit "Calling the Moon," a middle grade anthology on menstruation by writers of color. She is a founding member of Las Musas, a Latinx kidlit debut author collective. Her short story "By the Light of the Moon" was adapted into a ballet production by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland, California. Betty Tang (Author ) Betty C. Tang is the "New York Times" bestselling illustrator of the Jacky Ha-Ha series of graphic novels by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. She has worked for various Hollywood animation studios including Disney TV and DreamWorks Animation and co-directed an animated feature called "Where’s the Dragon?" Betty is also a fourth degree black belt in Aikido, a Japanese martial art. Born in Taiwan, Betty immigrated to California as a Parachute Kid when she was ten. She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more about her work at bettyctang.com. Francisco Stork (Author ) Francisco X. Stork is the author of "Marcelo in the Real World," winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens and the Once Upon a World Award, and "The Last Summer of the Death Warriors," which was named to the YALSA Best Fiction for Teens list. He works in Boston as an attorney for a state agency that develops affordable housing. He is married and has two adult children. Sandra Farag (Moderator ) Sandra Farag is Head of Youth Services at Kalamazoo Public Library. Sandra most recently served as the Manager of Collection Development for Youth at Ingram Library Services in LaVergne, TN. Sandra has also served on multiple award committees, and presented and/or moderated events at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, the American Library Association Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table, the Young Adult Library Services Association Symposium, Bank Street College, "School Library Journal" Day of Dialog, KidLitTV, and BookCon NYC. Sandra earned her Master Library Sciences (MLS) and Children’s and Young Adult Services in the Public Library Certificate from City University of New York (CUNY), Queens College, and her Bachelor of Arts in Child and Adolescent Psychology from CUNY, Baruch College.

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