Rhonda Roumani is an award-winning Syrian American author and journalist. She is the author of the Middle Grade book Tagging Freedom (Union Square), which received an Arab American Book Award honor and was an Indies Introduce and Indies Next pick; the picture book Insha’Allah, No, Maybe So (Holiday House), which was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and a New York Public Library Best Books of 2024. Her most recent non-fiction picture book is Um Kulthum: The Star of the East (Interlink Publishing.) She lives in New Haven, CT with her husband and two kids.
2025 Family Day
Speaker – Coming of Age in an Unsteady World
Speaker – Creators’ Collective Action
