There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that needs to be understood by ….

We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're still open to reading….

Sure, kids want to read whatever is the hot book, and of course they want to read fantasy and any kind of speculative fiction, but they also like to ….

The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, mid….

Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that, we creat….

A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is underrepresented, in any kind of media, whe….

I particularly love where I work because I was born, raised, and still live in the Bronx. I work in a Bronx location, so it's very fulfilling to me t….

When I say myself, I don't mean just as a woman of color, as a girl who's growing up in the Bronx, as people growing up in some way economically-chal….