{"id":2286,"date":"2019-02-25T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2019-02-25T00:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:07:20","slug":"a-conversation-with-ellen-oh-of-we-need-diverse-books-226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/?p=2286","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Ellen Oh of We Need Diverse Books\u2122 &#8211; 2\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, February 26<br \/>\nStarting at 6:00 pm<br \/>\nC-004 (Faculty\/Staff Dining Room)<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Need Diverse Books\u2122<\/strong> is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and grassroots organization with the mission of putting more books featuring diverse characters into the hands of all children. Through grants, awards, mentorships, and anthologies, WNDB supports diverse writers and a future where every child can see themselves in a book.<\/p>\n<p>Join MG\/YA author and co-founder <strong>Ellen Oh<\/strong> for a conversation sponsored by the Ifill College, Faculty Growth Grants, and the office of Organizational Culture, Inclusion, and Equity. Register at <a href=\"http:\/\/ellenohsimmons.eventbrite.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ellenohsimmons.eventbrite.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, February 26 Starting at 6:00 pm C-004 (Faculty\/Staff Dining Room) We Need Diverse Books\u2122 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and grassroots organization with the mission of putting more books featuring diverse characters into the hands of all children. Through grants, awards, mentorships, and anthologies, WNDB supports diverse writers and a future where every child can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}