Multicultural Children's Book Day

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Team / Staff

President, Mia Wenjen

Because my children are 1/4 Japanese-American, 1/4 Chinese-American, and 1/2 Korean American, I personally sought out books for my kids where they could see themselves; something that I didn’t have growing up despite being a bookworm who read every single biography and fiction chapter book in my Southern California elementary school library.
I’m Mia Wenjen and I blog at PragmaticMom. I love children’s books. Blogging on children’s books for the past seven years made me realize that there simply isn’t enough representation of kids of color in children’s literature. And, for the diversity books that do exist, they don’t get the exposure they need and deserve.
I made it my mission five years ago to dedicate my blogging efforts to promote children’s authors of color, and, in proclaiming my personal goal, found many other people who agree. Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book was one of those people. She proposed creating a day to celebrate multicultural books for kids one day over Skype and thus Multicultural Children’s Book Day was born.
With each year, Valarie and I want to find ways to get multicultural books into the hands of under-served kids who most need them. We are delighted that you are here to help us celebrate! Thank you!
I’d love to connect with you! Blog: PragmaticMom, Twitter: PragmaticMom, Pinterest: PragmaticMom, Instagram: PragmaticMom, FaceBook: PragmaticMom, Google+: Mia Wenjen, LinkedIn: Mia Wenjen, YouTube: Mia Wenjen, Periscope: @PragmaticMom

Project Manager, Frances Díaz Evans

Frances Díaz Evans

Frances Díaz Evans is a Latina author and educator. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Universidad del Este in Puerto Rico and a master’s degree in Spanish education from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.   She is the founder and writer of the multicultural, bilingual parenting website, Discovering the World Through My Son’s Eyes and Discovering Español a business dedicated to teaching Spanish online.   Through her work as a multicultural and language advocate, she promotes and enhances Latino culture, multicultural literacy, and the Spanish language both online and in her local community.   She self-published her first children’s book Coco la cotorra puertorriqueña in which she shares her love for Puerto Rico and spreads awareness on the importance of bilingualism to children and teens around the world.   She joined Multicultural Children’s Book Day in our early days advocating for multicultural books as a book reviewer, then as a co-host, and now she’s honored to take on the role of project manager.

You can connect with her on Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Twitter Pinterest  Outschool

 

Social Media Manager and MCBD IG Live Host, Leanna Guillén Mora

Leanna Gullien-Mora

Leanna has graduate degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Library Science. She currently dedicates herself to homeschooling her three bilingual/bicultural children and advocating for multicultural education through her blogs. She started her personal blog, All Done Monkey, in 2012, to share tips on multicultural education and parenting. Later that year, she founded Multicultural Kid Blogs, which has grown into a community of 100+ bloggers from all over the world, dedicated to raising global citizens. Through both of these blogs, she has been a co-host and reviewer for Multicultural Children’s Book Day since the beginning and is excited to join the team to help promote this much-needed event.

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