Horton
Writer and activist Michelle Horton is the author of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds. The book details the events surrounding a high-profile case in New York State and centers on two sisters: Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killing her longtime abuser; and Michelle, who is left in the devastating fall-out to raise […]
Bauermeister
Erica Bauermeister is the NYT bestselling author of five novels, including No Two Persons, The Scent Keeper, and The School of Essential Ingredients. Her books have been published in 29 countries and chosen as a Reese’s Book Club pick, Indie Next Picks, and a Newsweek’s Best Books of 2023. She is also the author of […]
Vulchi
In sophomore year of high school, Priya Vulchi (she/her) co-founded the non-profit, CHOOSE (chooseorg.org, @choose_org), with the goal of advocating for racial literacy curricula in U.S. K-12 schools. Alongside her friend Winona Guo, she co-wrote a 224-page racial-literacy textbook, which was funded by Princeton University and featured in Teen Vogue. She then took a gap […]
Guo
In sophomore year of high school, Winona Guo (they/them) co-founded the non-profit, CHOOSE (chooseorg.org, @choose_org), with the goal of advocating for racial literacy curricula in U.S. K-12 schools. Alongside their friend Priya Vulchi, they co-wrote a 224-page racial-literacy textbook, which was funded by Princeton University and featured in Teen Vogue. They then took a gap […]
Guo & Vulchi
In 2014, Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo entered sophomore year of high school, only a few months after the murder of Eric Garner and protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In their home state of New Jersey, financial literacy was a requirement, but racial literacy—the ability to think about and act on race and racial injustice—had been […]
Berry
Erica Berry is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron Books, 2023), a kaleidoscopic blend of memoir, science, cultural criticism, journalism and folklore. Wolfish was the winner of the 2024 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and a semifinalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Researched over the […]
Varon
Jamie Varon is a bestselling non-fiction author, executive producer, novelist, course creator, designer, branding expert, and writer whose work has been read by millions. She is a multi-passionate creative who follows her curiosity wherever it leads. She lives in Los Angeles, CA. Her first nonfiction book, Radically Content was published April 12th, 2022 with Quarto […]
Lawson
Jenny Lawson (aka “The Bloggess”) is is a #1 NYT bestselling author and award-winning humor writer best known for her inspiring candor in sharing her struggle with depression, anxiety and chronic pain. She lives in Texas with her husband and daughter and was constantly “buying too many books” (“Not a real thing,” she insists), so […]
Eig
Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of six books, including his most recent King: A Life, which was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI […]
Goodluck
Laurel Goodluck is Mandan, Hidatsa from the prairies of North Dakota, and Tsimshian from the rainforest in Alaska. She now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her Diné husband, where they raised two children also bent on storytelling in journalism and acting. Belonging to an intertribal family is at the heart of her stories, encouraging […]