AG Partner Events
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
11:00 am Eastern
Online
Cheryl and Wade Hudson, co-founders of Just Us Books and editors of the anthology We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, will join bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrators, PEN America, Penguin Random House, Red Balloon Bookshop, The Children’s Book Council, The Authors Guild and other advocacy groups, public libraries, and booksellers to uplift messages of hope, resilience, and activism for young people in Minneapolis and across the county.
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices was created in 2016 and published by Penguin Random House in partnership with Just Us Books in 2018. The anthology includes fifty of the foremost diverse children’s authors and illustrators. Eight years later the messages of the anthology remain true, and in light of current events in Minnesota and beyond, ring even truer
Several authors and illustrators from the original anthology, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voice, will join together in this virtual event to answer the question, “Given the divisive climate in which we live, what does it look like to rise, resist, and raise our voices at the current moment?”
Speakers include:
