This past week I was interviewed by emcee, poet, educator, and social media G Maddy Clifford! Maddy has started a new series called “Interview w/ a Muse” and I’m excited to be her first guest! Check it out.
Maddy Clifford just started a substack, please follow it here.
Dig this? Check out this interview w/ the Etsy Conversations Podcast
I was getting a whole bunch of favorites and sales for a sticker in my shop and wondered, who is either talking about my work or featuring it? Now I know. Etsy has a Black Owned Etsy Group which features shops from many disciplines and categories and my work is in there. If you log into Etsy and scroll the main page for Black History Month my “PAUSE” sticker is there. Thank you Etsy for the feature! I appreciate it.
Dig this? Check out my sticker pack of affirmation stickers.
This is the second time I’ve had the honor of having one of my books on the AALBC 100 best Black books list! Aalbc is one of the oldest websites supporting Black authors, bookstores, and a larger literary community. A stamp of approval from them is pretty awesome!
Ok, here you can see “Fresh Juice” included among a bunch of picture books, middle grade, and YA book written and /or illustrated by Black authors. I see a bunch of familair names there as well as some Bay Area friends such as Tiffany Golden, Maya Cameron Gordon, Angela Dalton, and Jessica Jones.
LINK to check out the other books on this list!
Dig this? Check out these reviews of the Fresh Juice/ Jugo Fresco
Ey, this is some pretty cool news to wake up to. Back a few months ago Storyline reached out to me and my publisher about including my book in their read aloud series, but I didn’t know it would be like this. Watch this video-check out the high production quality, the animation, and the talents of actor Da’Vine Joy Randolph who did an amazing job reading it.
Huge shout out to the marketing team at Lee and Low, Storyline Online, The Sag Aftra Foundation, my agent Marietta Zacker, the film production and editing crew, the animation team who made my characters move, all the orgs and actors involved with spreading literacy and a joy for reading, and of course and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. If you’d like to see an activity guide for the book go to https://storylineonline.net/books/fresh-juice/
Dig this? Check out these reviews for my book Fresh Juice/ Jugo Fresco.
Shout out to San Francisco State University magazine for featuring my work. Thats more than I can say for any of the other schools I went to. BIG shout out to the marketing/promo team at Lee & Low for all of their hard work promoting the book!
To see all the other literary works by SFSU alumni GO HERE.
Dig this? Check out when “Fresh juice/ Jugo Fresco” was featured by Bank Street College
Once is a blessing, twice is an honor. BIG shout out to “We Are Kid Lit Collective” for featuring my “Art of Rob” 130 book of drawings, sketches, paintings, tutorials, and more. If you don’t know them you should check out their yearly summer reading lists for kids. If you’d like to Cop my book, do that HERE. And check out all of these other amazing books listed in the article HERE.
Dig this? Check out this video I made of some of my favorite “Art Books”
Hey, shout out to Star Tribune out in Minnesota for featuring “Fresh Juice” in their round up of picture books. Super appreciate it! Link to article.
Dig this? Check out these outlets that also featured “Fresh juice”
Heres an interview I did for Canvas Rebel, a mission driven blog that features brands and creatives. Read the interview here.
Dig this? Check out my interview on KQED’s Rightnowish
Hey fam, I was invited to be a guest on the Multicultural Classroom podcast where Roberto German interviews teachers, artists, educators, and activists about education both in and outside of the classroom. I’ve been following his wife Lorena German for a while hearing about their collective work to not only share insights from people who work in education, but their work as teachers who develop curriculum. Give the interview a listen and check out their website here.
Dig this? Check out this podcast interview with Art Concordia talking about why we need ethnic studies.
I was invited to be a guest on the “Art of The Bay-Sessions” podcast last summer and I’m super excited to share that its out. This podcast interviews and features Bay Area artists of many different disciplines and I’m honored to be on it. Big shout out to Nando for having me on.
In this episode we talk about:
LINK TO LISTEN or you can listen on your favorite podcast app.
Dig this? Check out this interview I did for Oakland Creates