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I Can Write the World by Joshunda Sanders

November 10, 2020

Last Updated on by Jane Higgins

A Reading and Discussion with the Leonard Leif Library, School of Education, and Women’s and Gender Studies

A vibrant story about what makes a place home and the ties between culture and pride. – Kirkus

Sanders’ first book in a children’s book series, I Can Write the World, features Ava Murray, a Black girl journalist from the Bronx.  After Ava and her mother watch the news together, her mother explains, Sometimes the way the world sees us / Is different from how we see ourselves.

The next book in the series, A Place of Our Own,is scheduled for publication in 2021.

Joshunda Sanders is an author, journalist, and educator.  She is creator and host of a BookTube channel, Black Book Stacks.  Sanders is the Communications Specialist in the President’s Office at Lehman College and an Adjunct Lecturer in Lehman’s English Department.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Virtual Event — Link will be sent to those registered

RSVP by November 9th: https://lehman.libcal.com/calendar/events/Sanders

Information: Alison.LehnerQuam@lehman.cuny.edu