Traci Huahn, Cheryl Kim, Brook Thompson

From education to sports to the environment, we fight for what we love! Learn from three amazing picture books that tell true stories of inspiring people taking a stand against the norm. In Traci Huahn’s Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School, learn about 8-year-old Mamie Tape’s fight to attend a San Francisco public school during the 1880s, when Chinese children weren’t allowed in the “all white” public schools. Japanese-American Wataru Misaka also faced many challenges as the first person of color to play in the NBA, and Cheryl Kim captures his story in her book, Wat Takes His Shot. For Brooke Thompson, who is a part of the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, her community’s fight to protect the habitats of salmon and lampreys along the Klamath River motivated her to pursue environmental science and tell this act of manifest dismantling in I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience. Emceed by the talented Kamiyah and Grace of Cinnamongirl Inc., this event will inspire readers to flip the page, take a stand, and never back down when people in power try to take away the things we love!