He is the founder of Refugee Strong, a nonprofit organization that empowers students living in refugee camps. He now lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with his wife and five children, and works at a center to help resettle other refugees. He devoted everything to taking care of his younger brother, Hassan, and to pursuing his education. Omar Mohamed spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp, after his father was killed and he was separated from his mother in Somalia.
Her graphic novel, When Stars Are Scattered (2020), co-authored by Omar Mohamed, was the 2022 Georgia Children’s Book Award winner. Roller Girl (2015) was a Newbery Honor Award Winner and New York Times bestseller. After graduation she began working as a book designer with HarperCollins Children’s Books in New York. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, but soon found herself drawn back towards illustration instead of animation. Victoria Jamieson grew up in Pennsylvania, where she wrote and illustrated her first book in the third grade. Reem Faruqi lives in Atlanta with her husband and three daughters. She’s also the author of Amira’s Picture Day, I Can Help, and two middle grade novels in verse, Unsettled and Golden Girl, which all got starred reviews. Reem Faruqi is the award-winning children’s book author of Lailah’s Lunchbox, a book based on her own experiences as a young Muslim girl immigrating to the United States. Kirsten was named one of the Boston Globe’s Everyday Heroes for her work on the Welcoming Library, a traveling collection of acclaimed picture books featuring New Arrival and New Generation families that inspire conversations about immigration. She brings 20 years of experience using children’s books and the companion tools she creates to increase curiosity, empathy, and cultural competency. Kirsten Cappy co-founded I’m Your Neighbor Books in 2012. The conference also hosts the finals of the annual Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl, a statewide competition for students in grades 4–12. As an integral part of Georgia’s literacy initiative for more than half a century, the Georgia Conference on Children’s Literature draws hundreds of teachers, school media specialists, public librarians, authors, illustrators, and children’s literature scholars from the Southeast and beyond.
Lumpkin Street, Athens, GAĭescription: After a successful in-person conference, we are looking forward to the 2023 conference. Location: UGA Hotel and Conference Center, 1197 S. Schedule: Registration starts at 7:30 a.m., sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. 2023 Georgia Conference on Children’s Literature
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