Join us for a discussion with author and teen activist Marley Dias, best known for launching her own #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign. 

Marley noted that most of “classics” featured stories about white boys and their dogs. After reading Jacqueline Woodson’s “Brown Girl Dreaming,” she was inspired to launch a social media campaign called, #1000BlackGirlBooks, to collect and distribute a thousand books with Black girl protagonists to libraries across the country. 

Learn more about her campaign, her continued work, and the steps you can take as as a teacher to make all the young readers you work with feel represented and inspired by the books they’re reading. This professional learning episode was created specifically with the PreK-2 classroom in mind.