Stop Antiblack Racism

Toronto-born of Jamaican parents Nadia L. Hohn is a Jamaican Canadian award-winning author and educator who advocates for diversity in children's literature. She is the author of the Malaika series, A Likkle Miss Lou, Getting Us to Grandma's and Patty Dreams, and she is the editor and a contributor of The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes). Nadia is an "artivist" who wants to make sure that all young people can see themselves in books, and she has delivered hundreds of presentations at schools, libraries, bookstores and literary festivals around the world. She teaches elementary school and courses on writing for children at post-secondary institutions in Toronto, where she lives.

Arden Taylor is a Toronto-based freelance illustrator. A graduate of Sheridan College with an honors bachelor of illustration, she enjoys digitally creating colorful illustrations of architecture and people, and designs for wallpaper and other projects. Her clients include Hazlitt magazine and the California Institute of Technology, and her work has been featured in various magazines, newspapers, advertising campaigns and websites. She is the illustrator of Walls, The True Story of Vanilla and Why Communities Need Engineers.