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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Trailblazing Women Writers | Reshma Saujani's 'Pay Up. The Future of Women and Work'
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 3 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT.  In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Month\, PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with Reshma Saujani\, discussing her latest book “Pay Up. The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think).” \nReshma is the founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of “Brave\, Not Perfect”; she confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today. Since the feminism movement\, women have been told that they can “have it all”– break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers.. But data tells a different story. \nHistoric numbers of women left their jobs in 2021\, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Women’s unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent\, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined\, while anxiety and depression rates have skyrocketed. In her book\, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of “having it all” and lifts the burden we place on individual women to be primary caregivers\, and to work around a system built for and by men. She outlines four key steps for creating necessary change: empower working women\, educate corporate leaders\, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful\, and advocate for policy reform. Don’t miss the conversation.  There will be time for questions from the audience at the end of the conversation. \nAbout the Author: Reshma Saujani\nReshma Saujani is the author of “PAY UP: The Future of Women and Work (And Why It’s Different Than You Think)”. She is a leading activist and founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms. She has spent more than a decade advocating for women’s and girls’ economic empowerment\, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector\, and\, most recently\, championing policies to support mothers impacted by the pandemic. Saujani is also the author of the international bestseller “Brave\, Not Perfect\,” and her influential TED talk\, “Teach Girls Bravery\, Not Perfection\,” has more than five million views. \nLearn more at reshmasaujani.com.
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SUMMARY:'Water's True Cost' with Author Peter Annin
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 12 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT.  To address Water’s True Cost\, PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with journalist and professor Peter Annin\, discussing his book “The Great Lakes Water Wars\,” led by Program Director of the Great Lakes Now Sandra Svoboda. \nExamining water’s true cost\, Annin and Svoboda discuss the aging water systems in the Great Lakes region and across the United States.  Annin also provides foundational knowledge about various concepts like diversion and pollution\, encouraging audience members to gain a larger understand about the challenges ahead. As the nation prepares to pour billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems\, join this program to learn more. \nWater’s True Cost Project is a Great Lakes News Collaborative that includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio\, Michigan’s NPR News Leader.  They are working together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change\, pollution\, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. This independent journalism is supported by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. \nGreat Lakes Now\nThe Great Lakes Now initiative offers in-depth coverage of news\, issues\, events and developments affecting the lakes and the communities that depend on them\, while capturing the character and culture of the region through a  monthly magazine-style television program and daily online reports at GreatLakesNow.org\,. Find Watch Parties and other events HERE. \nHoused at Detroit Public TV\, Great Lakes Now’s growing network of regional partner public broadcaster stations and other media outlets contribute coverage to the television program and to the Great Lakes Now website. The monthly show\, “Great Lakes Now\,” launched in April 2019\, and since then has expanded to a basin-wide\, bi-national program carried on more than 25 PBS stations in six states as well as on more than 800 Canadian cable systems. \nAbout the Author: Peter Annin\nA veteran conflict and environmental journalist\, Peter Annin spent more than a decade reporting on a wide variety of issues for Newsweek. For many years he specialized in coverage of domestic terrorism and other conflicts\, including the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City and the Branch Davidian standoff outside Waco\, Texas. He also spent many years writing about the environment\, including droughts in the Southwest\, hurricanes in the Southeast\, wind power on the Great Plains\, and the causes and consequences of the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. \nAfter his time at Newsweek\, Annin became associate director of the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources\, a nonpartisan national nonprofit that organizes educational fellowships for midcareer environmental journalists. In September 2006 he published his first book\, The Great Lakes Water Wars\, which has been called the definitive work on the Great Lakes water diversion controversy and received the Great Lakes Book Award for nonfiction. From 2010 to 2015 Annin served as managing director of the University of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative\, which targets the interrelated problems of invasive species\, land use\, and climate change\, focusing on their synergistic impacts on water resources. \nIn 2018\, Annin published a major revision of The Great Lakes Water Wars and he continues to write about the Great Lakes and other water issues. \nHe currently serves as director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College in Ashland\, Wisconsin. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin\, a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University in New York\, and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Northland College. \n 
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: "Jo Jo Makoons" with Dawn Quigley
DESCRIPTION:May 18\, 2022 at 5pm ET | 2pm PT \nPBS Books\, in partnership with the American Indian Library Association\, is pleased to interview trailblazer Dawn Quigley\, author of the Jo Jo Makoons series\, including the recently released Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants (#2). \nIn American Indian Youth Literature Award: Middle Grade Honor chapter Book\, a spunky young Ojibwe girl Jo Jo Makoons is full of pride\, joy\, and plenty of humor\, celebrating who she is. During the program\, we’ll be discussing Dawn’s popular new series and get to hear first hand about her latest release. Dawn will share insights into her writing process and her creative inspiration. Not only an author\, she is also an educator of K-12 children and future educators. \nThe Jo Jo Makoons series is published by The Heartdrum imprint\, which centers a wide range of intertribal voices\, visions\, and stories while welcoming all young readers\, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes. \nFollowing the conversation\, there will be an opportunity for questions from audience members on Facebook. \nAbout the Author \nDawn Quigley\, Ph.D. and citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe\, ND\, is an assistant professor at a Midwest university Education Department. She taught English and reading for 18+ years in the K-12 schools along with being an Indian Education program co-director. In addition to her debut coming-of-age Young Adult novel\, Apple in the Middle (NDSU Press)\, “Joey Reads the Sky” in Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids\, the chapter book series Jo Jo Makoons: The Used to Be Best Friend (book #1); Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants (#2)\, Red Bird Danced (forthcoming novel-in-verse)\, and Native American Heroes (Scholastic Books). Dawn has over 30 published articles\, essays and poems. She lives in Minnesota with her family.
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SUMMARY:'I Am An American' with Authors Grace Lin and Martha Brockenbrough | Trailblazing Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 25\, 2022 at 5pm ET | 2pm PT \nPBS Books is pleased to interview trailblazers Grace Lin and Martha Brockenbrough\, authors of “I Am An American: The Wong Kim Ark Story”. \nThis book is an important picture book that introduces readers to the young man—Wong Kim Ark– who challenged the Supreme Court for his right to be an American citizen and won\, confirming birthright citizenship for all Americans.  The story takes place in the late 1800s when American-born Wong Kim Ark returns home to San Francisco after a visit to China.  He is stopped and told he cannot enter because he isn’t American. After being imprisoned on a ship for months\, Wong Kim Ark takes his case to the Supreme Court and argues any person born in America is an American citizen.  Join this conversation to hear about the authors’ process\, insights\, and the importance of this story now. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS\nGRACE LIN\nBefore Grace Lin was an award-winning and NY Times bestselling author/illustrator of picture books\, early readers and middle grade novels\, she was the only Asian girl (except for her sisters) going to her elementary school in Upstate NY. That experience\, good and bad\, has influenced her books—including her Newbery Honor “WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON”\, her Geisel Honor “LING & TING”\, her National Book Finalist “WHEN THE SEA TURNED TO SILVER” and her Caldecott Honor “A BIG MOONCAKE FOR LITTLE STAR”. But\, it also causes Grace to persevere for diversity as an occasional New England Public Radio commentator and when she gave her TEDx talk “The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child’s Bookshelf\,” as well as her PBSNewHour video essay “What to do when you realize classic books from your childhood are racist?.” She continued this mission with a hundred episodes of the podcast kidlitwomen* and now currently hosts two other podcasts: Book Friends Forever and Kids Ask Authors. In 2016\, Grace’s art was displayed at the White House and Grace\, herself\, was recognized by President Obama’s office as a Champion of Change for Asian American and Pacific Islander Art and Storytelling. In 2022\, Grace was awarded the Children’s Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association. \nMARTHA BROCKENBROUGH\nMartha Brockenbrough is the author of two books for adults and numerous books for young readers (with several others on the way)\, including YA fiction and nonfiction\, picture books\, and a forthcoming chapter book series. \nA faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts\, she’s also the founder of National Grammar Day (every March 4)\, and she’s written game questions for Cranium and Trivial Pursuit. The former editor of MSN.com\, Martha has interviewed lots of celebrities\, and her work has been published in a variety of places\, including The New York Times.  Her books have won many awards\, including a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. \nShe lives in Seattle with her family. Her favorite kind of food is Indian\, although Thai runs a close second. Besides writing\, she likes board games\, playing music with the family band\, travel to places far and near\, drinking lots of coffee\, and working out really hard at the gym.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/i-am-an-american-with-authors-grace-lin-and-martha-brockenbrough/
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