Evette Davis

Evette Davis, a science fiction and fantasy writer, is the author of 48 States, which Kirkus named one of the Best Indie Books of 2022. Davis is also the author of Woman King and Dark Horse, the first two installments of the Dark Horse Trilogy.…
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Leslie Carol Roberts

LESLIE CAROL ROBERTS is an author, journalist, research scholar, and professor who has traveled to every continent, taking photos and writing narratives of humans, more-than-humans, and ecologies. The first Fullbright fellow in Antarctica,…

Noah Stern

Noah Stern is a filmmaker and university instructor. His credits include Grammy Award–winning music videos and the Sundance selection The Invisibles starring Portia Di Rossi. He has produced film and television projects with Warner Bros.,…

Alisha Rai

Alisha Rai pens award-winning contemporary adult and young adult romances. Her novels have been featured on the IndieNext and the LibraryReads lists, and been named Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, New York Public Library,…

Toby McLeod

Toby McLeod has been project director of Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project since 1984. In 2013, he completed the four-part series Standing on Sacred Ground, which aired on PBS in 2015. McLeod produced and directed In the Light…

Emilio Garcia-Ruiz

Amy Midanik-Blum

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Kirstin Chen

Kirstin Chen is the New York Times bestselling author of Counterfeit, Soy Sauce for Beginners, and Bury What We Cannot Take. Born and raised in Singapore, she currently lives in New York City.
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Story Time Band

In 2013, children's librarian Michael Kwende, known to Berkeley youth as "Mr. Michael," and retired librarian and guitarist Tim DeWolf, began offering musical story time programs at the Berkeley Public Library's Claremont Branch Library. Their…
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Lance Knobel

Lance Knobel is CEO and co-founder of Cityside Journalism Initiative, a pioneering nonprofit local news organization. Its award-winning sites, Berkeleyside, Oaklandside and Richmondside, have built a reputation for innovation and strong accountability…