The guest speaker for the WSDLC Annual Membership Meeting on March 18th will be 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times bestselling author,
Cynthia Leitich Smith.

Ms. Smith is also the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins Children’s Books, and serves as the Katherine Paterson Inaugural Endowed Chair on the faculty of the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Cynthia is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and lives in Austin, TX.

We are so excited to have her join us for a moderated Q & A session beginning at 2:30 pm.

Registration is open and accessible through this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xA5LX7kSQ0emyd278rq4-A

To submit questions for Ms. Smith, please use this form: https://forms.gle/9N2oV6i1A5ACbrHQ8 and submit questions by March 12th.

Please feel free to share this link with others in your school or district who might be interested in attending this special event.

A huge thank you to our vendor partner OverDrive for sponsoring Ms. Smith’s appearance.