Vashti Harrison is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends, and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe, Matthew Cherry’s Hair Love, Andrea Beaty’s I Love You Like Yellow, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hello, Star, among others. She earned her BA in Studio Art and Media Studies from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts, where she rekindled a love for drawing and painting. Vashti lives in Brooklyn, New York.