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Standing Up To Racism in Your Community and Schools
Episode 1
Monday, 1 May, 2023
Mia will share how she used her blog and 1-1 relationships to stand up to anti-asian rhetoric in her community and create change. This interview will empower and equip you to advocate for change in your community. Mia Wenjen is half Japanese & half Chinese American and married to a Korean American. This unusual ethnic combination made her seek out all kinds of Asian representation in children’s books for her three kids. She started a blog, PragmaticMom.com, to share her favorite books, and Multicultural Children’s Book Day to celebrate diverse KidLit. Her debut picture book, Sumo Joe (Lee and Low, 2019) was selected as a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year. She wrote Asian Pacific American Heroes for Scholastic (2020) and Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes as a Kickstarter pandemic project. Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World releases spring of 2023 through Barefoot Books. Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist (Red Comet Press) and Boxer Baby (Eifrig Publishing) releases in 2024. Follow her @pragmaticmom on social media. You can learn more about Mia on her blog: https://www.pragmaticmom.com/ on Instagram @pragmaticmom or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064493391981 Be sure to also check out her organization, Multicultural Children's Book Day, a celebration of multicultural children's literature: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/ This session is co-hosted by one of our conference supporters, Little Bean's Toy Chest: https://www.littlebeanstoychest.com/. Little Bean's Toy Chest creates diverse quiet books for little explorers and change makers.
