Brandy Colbert (Chair) is an author of books for children and teens, including Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, The Only Black Girls in Town, and Little & Lion. Her work has received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Stonewall Book Award, and was a finalist for the Young Adult Library Services Association Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. She lives in Los Angeles.

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