Meet the Authors

Stan Yogi

Stan Yogi is the coauthor, with Elaine Elinson, of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. He managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California for fourteen years and is the coeditor of two books, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California's Great Central Valley and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, MELUS, Los Angeles Daily Journal, and several anthologies. He is married to nonprofit administrator David Carroll and lives in Los Angeles.

Arisa White

Arisa White is a Cave Canem graduate poet and her work has been nominated for the NAACP Image Awards, California Book Awards, and Wheatley Book Awards. Her recent poetry collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates cultural events and artistic collaborations that center narratives of queer and trans people of color. She serves on the board of directors for Nomadic Press and is an assistant professor at Colby College. Visit her website at www.arisawhite.com.
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Laura Atkins

Laura Atkins is a children's book author and editor who helped to produce award-winning books at Children’s Book Press  and Lee & Low Books. She taught creative writing at the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature (NCRCL) in London, where she also received her M.A., and has an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In addition to cowriting the Fighting for Justice series, Laura is the author of the picture book Sled Dog Dachshund. Passionate about diversity and equity in children’s books, Laura and her daughter live in Berkeley, California. Visit www.lauraatkins.com.

Meet the Illustrators

Yutaka Houlette

Yutaka Houlette is an illustrator and designer living in Oakland, California, with his wife and twin boys. He grew up in Japan and later moved to Baltimore to study art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. To see more of his work, visit yutakahoulette.com.

Laura Freeman

Laura Freeman is an illustrator of children’s books, editorial content, and licensed art. She’s also a mom, a gardener, and a Photoshop junkie. She’s a displaced New Yorker, currently living in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two children. To see more of her work, visit LFreemanArt.com. 
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