K-12 Educators! Join us for an evening with author Lesley Younge, as she discusses her award-winning book Nearer My Freedom and how to integrate it into the K-12 classroom.
The webinar is part of the Global Read Webinar Series - Africana Book Award Webinars.
https://cfas.howard.edu/outreach/caba/global-read-webinar-series-africana-book-award-webinars
Lesley Younge is an educator and writer from Silver Spring, Maryland. She currently teaches middle school English in Washington D.C at Maret (Mah-ray) School. This is her 19th year in the classroom. Lesley debuted as an author in 2023 with two books for young people. Nearer My Freedom (co-authored with her mentor Monica Edinger) is an award winning YA verse novel remix of British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s seminal autobiography. A-Train Allen, her first picture book, was an inaugural Own Voices, Own Stories Grand Prize Winner awarded by Sleeping Bear Press. Also a poet, Lesley’s work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Midnight & Indigo, Full Bleed, and others, including Poetry magazine’s newest issue featuring poems for young people. Lesley blogs and shares resources at teacherlesley.com