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  • Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Design Matters w/ Debbie Millman & Guests   Symphony Space
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  • Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts   Family Action Network
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  • Jacqueline Woodson on Banned Books & Other Stuff   The Digital Public Library of America
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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.