Events & News

(Events in bold are open to the public.)

Upcoming Events

Previous Events

  • UCLA Latin American Institute “Using Picture Books in the Classroom”
  • Forest Trail Elementary, West Lake Hills, TX
  • Texas Association of School Librarian Administrators (TASLA), Austin, TX
  • Texas Book Festival “Texas Center for the Book Presents Great Reads: Teaching About Real-life Figures” co-moderator with Rebekah Manley, Austin
  • NYU Steinhardt in conjunction with PS151K Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Multicultural Literature Class, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX.
  • Pen America Censorship: Banned Books Reading, Austin
  • Book Spring Fest Austin, TX.
  • Texas Library Association (TLA) Conference: “Framing America’s Difficult Conversations: The Literary Legacy of Karen Blumenthal” panel and “Breaking Down the Social-Emotional Gap and Fostering Connections through Diverse Stories panel”
  • Austin SCBWI Writers and Illustrators Conference
  • Coastal Bend Writing Project presentation and workshop
  • Pan-American Roundtable, Austin
  • Author’s Day, Texas A&M University, sessions for public, students and teachers, Corpus Christi
  • Kweli Conference
  • World Read Aloud Day for classes in Washington State, Boston area, and North Carolina
  • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference
  • Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP)at NCSS conference: Americás Award Presentation and panel, Philadelphia, PA.
  • SCBWI Nonfiction Picture Book Panel, Austin
  • Latinx Kidlit Book Festival “Remember Me: Stories of Family, Icons, and Our Culture in Historical Fiction” panel
  • Red Salmon Arts, Austin
  • Davis Elementary, Austin
  • Kidquake Kidquake 2021: Gloria Amescua presents Child of the Flower-Song People.
  • Reading Rock Stars, Govalle Elementary, Austin
  • Texas Book Festival, “Read Me a Story”
  • Kweli Journal–interview with Aida Salazar
  • American Association of University Women, Corpus Christi
  • Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) FallCon, Denver, CO.
  • Southside Book Fair, San Antonio
  • NCTE: “Getting the Story Right: #Own Voices Nonfiction for Every Library”
  • TLA Conference #OwnVoices and #DignidadLiteraria: Advocating for Marginalized Voices in the Literary Scene
  • School Library Journal Picture Book Palooza
  • The Writing Barn’s Nonfiction ConFab, “The Story You Were Born to Tell: Picture Book Biographies and Their Creator”
  • Taylor Middle School and Main Street Elementary, Taylor, Texas
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