Michelle H. Martin

Michelle H. Martin is the Beverly Cleary Endowed Professor for Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington and from 2011 to 2016 was the inaugural Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy at the University of South Carolina. She has published Brown Gold: Milestones of African American Children’s Picture Books, 1845-2002 (Routledge, 2004) and co-edited Sexual Pedagogies: Sex Education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879-2000 (with Claudia Nelson, Palgrave, 2003). She was the first African American President of the Children’s Literature Association and will be hosting the 2023 ChLA Conference in Bellevue, WA, near Seattle. She’s the founder of Read-a-Rama (www.Read-a-Rama.org), a nonprofit that uses children’s books as the springboard for year-round and summer camp programming.