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A Conversation with
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, was
born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954.
She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton
University, graduating
summa cum laude and
receiving the university's
highest academic honor.
In 1979, she earned a JD.
from Yale Law School
where she served as an
editor of the Yale Law
Journal. She thereafter
served as Assistant District
Attorney in the New York
County District Attorney's
Office from 1979-1984.
She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia & Harcourt,
where she was an associate and then partner from 1984-1992. In 1991, President
George H.W. Bush nominated her to the
U.S. District Court, Southern District of

New York, and she served in that role from
1992-1998. She then served as a judge
on the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit from
1998-2009. President
Barack Obama nominated
her as an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court on
May 26, 2009, and she
assumed this role August
8, 2009. Justice Sotomayor is the author of My
Beloved World, Turning
Pages, The Beloved World
of Sonia Sotomayor, and
the forthcoming Just Ask!
This session will take place
on Saturday, June 22,
2019, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
The session will be moderated by Jill Santopolo, the Associate Publisher of Philomel
Books, an imprint of Penguin Random
House. She edits an array of best-selling and

The Glass Room Experience

Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Auditorium Speaker
Saturday 6/22, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

Sonia Sotomayor
(photo by Elena Seibert)

award-winning authors, including Sonia
Sotomayor, Chelsea Clinton, Kamala Harris,
Temple Grandin, Mayim Bialik, Lisa Graff,
Jeffrey Kluger, Terry Border, and Amy Ephron. Santopolo is also the international and
best-selling author of The Light We Lost and
More Than Words, as well as the Sparkle Spa
series, the Follow Your Heart books, and the
Alec Flint mysteries. She was a thesis advisor
for the New School's MFA program, on the
faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course,
and an adjunct professor at McDaniel College, where she helped develop the online
certificate program in Writing for Children.
Justice Sotomayor's publisher is Penguin
Random House.
Get details and add to your schedule now.

Author, Writing Coach Tomi Adeyemi
Tomi Adeyemi
Auditorium Speaker
Monday 6/24, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Macmillan
Children's Publishing
Group

End of 3300 Aisle in the Exhibit Hall
The Glass Room Experience is a
mutlimedia experience that focuses on
the intersection between technology and
our day-to-day life. The exhibit includes
posters highlighting what we give away
when we sign the terms and conditions
to various apps, to how facial recognition
software is harvested and utilized. There
are also tablets loaded with custom apps

Library Services for
Persons with Print
Disabilities
This interest group offers networking opportunities, as well as information sharing
that promotes enhancing library services
and programming for the print disabled.
Stop by to learn what your colleagues are
up to, who they are doing business with or
to share what you are doing in your library.
Friday, June 21 from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. at
the Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts
Ave NW. Join us!

that allow participants to quiz themselves
about Internet of Things (IoT) items
that may or may not already exist. The
material is full of fantastic and easy-todigest information that is easy to engage
with and even easier to walk away having
learned something new.
Special thanks to the Tor Project, Library Freedom Institute, Mozilla, and Tactical Tech for making all of this possible.

Tomi Adeyemi is a Nigerian American
writer and creative writing coach based in
San Diego, Calif. After graduating Harvard
University with an honors degree in English
literature, she received a fellowship that allowed her to study West African mythology
and culture in Salvador, Brazil, where she
discovered her inspiration for her novel,
Children of Blood and Bone.
Her debut West African YA Fantasy novel, Children of Blood and Bone, was named
a 2019 YALSA Morris Award Finalist and
has spent over a year on the New York Times
Bestseller list. It was also recently awarded
the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize for
2018. A Children of Blood and Bone movie
is currently in development with Rick
Famuyiwa attached to direct.
Heralded by Entertainment Weekly as
"the new J.K. Rowling," she has appeared
on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," "Good Morning America," and "BBC
Breakfast" and she has been featured in Elle,

50 Years of the Coretta Scott King Book
Awards: A Live Taping of the Dewey
Decibel Podcast

Saturday, June 22
9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Washington Convention Center, Exhibit Hall - PopTop Stage
 
Join American Libraries Senior Editor and Dewey Decibel host Phil Morehart for
a conversation about the Coretta Scott King Book Awards with past winners and
honorees, including authors Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give) and Jason Reynolds
(As Brave as You Are), and illustrators Ekua Holmes (The Stuff of Stars) and Christopher Myers (Firebird). The talk will be taped for a future episode of the Dewey
Decibel podcast.

Tomi Adeyemi

Essence and O Magazine.
Adeyemi seeks not only to inspire
readers through her work, but to help
people of all races, ethnicities, and orientations understand that they matter and
that their dreams are achievable. When
she's not watching BTS and Seventeen
music videos, she can be found teaching
creative writing to her 12,000 subscribers
at tomiadeyemi.com, named one of the
101 best websites for writers by Writer's
Digest.
This session's moderator is Dr. Rose
Brock, professor of Children's and Young
Adult Literature and Library Science at
Sam Houston State University. She is the
author of Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarians Guide. A veteran educator and advocate for using audiobooks
as tools for literacy, Dr. Brock is one of
the co-founders of the North Texas Teen
Book Festival.
Get details and add to your schedule now.


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