Our next guest speaker event will be held on Friday, March 8, during periods 5 and 6 (two back-to-back sessions).
Our guest will be Rhonda Roumani, a Syrian-American journalist who has written about Islam, the Arab world, and Muslim-American issues for more than two decades. She is a Contributing Fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC and an affiliate of Yale’s MacMillan Center, Council on Middle East Studies. In 2021, she was selected as a Highlights Foundation Muslim Storyteller Fellow. She is the author of an upper middle grade book, Tagging Freedom, which was chosen as both an Indies Introduce and a kids’ Indie Next selection by the American Booksellers Association. Her first picture book, Insha’Allah, No, Maybe So, will be released in May of 2024 and has been named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She also has an upcoming non-fiction picture book, Umm Kulthum: Star of the East, which will be released in 2025. Rhonda graduated with a MS in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and received her BA in English and Political Science from UCLA.
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