Maya Gonzalez is an award-winning children’s book artist, author, activist and progressive educator. Maya’s work addresses systemic inequity in relation to race/ethnicity, sexism and cissexism using children’s books as radical agents of change and healing, both personally and culturally. Maya co-founded Reflection Press, a POC, queer and trans owned independent publishing house that uses holistic, nature-based, and anti-oppression frameworks in their books and materials for kids and grown-ups. Maya is also the creator of the Gender Wheel, an approach to gender and body diversity that is nature-based, decolonized and holistic and provides lectures and workshops to educators, parents and caregivers.
2025 Inside Ideas
Speaker – Storming the Gatekeepers: Past, Present, & Future Publishing Alternatives
2025 Family Day
Speaker – Healing and Resistance
