Celebrate the genius, diversity, and grit of Immigrants and Refugees in this boldly illustrated guide to 36 American trailblazers.
Agata immigrated to the United States from Warsaw, Poland and now lives in New York City..
She became an illustrator because she never wanted to stop drawing.
She spent her childhood drawing on everything with everything, including her mother\'s red lipstick on the staircase walls.
Agata Nowicka is an illustrator and a comics artist.
They live in New Hampshire.
Both Sandra and Rich are members of the advisory council for the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and are founding members of the Keene Immigrant and Refugee Partnership.
Rich was a longtime senior editor at Highlights magazine.
The daughter of a refugee, she became a US citizen in 2016.
Sandra is a former news anchor and ESPN sportscaster.
About the Author: Investigative journalists Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace are award-winning novelists and nonfiction authors of books like Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights and Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story.
Perhaps after reading their stories, you will be inspired to Make the world a better place, too.
Their courage, their achievements, and their determination to change the world have helped Make our country a stronger place.
And they are all Immigrants or Refugees to the United States of America.
They are people like Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, international singing sensation Celia Cruz, star basketball player Dikembe Mutombo, world-renowned physicist Albert Einstein, and influential journalist Jorge Ramos.
The men and women in this book represent nations from Somalia to Germany, from Syria to China, from Mexico to Sweden, and more.
Celebrate the genius, diversity, and grit of Immigrants and Refugees in this boldly illustrated guide to 36 American trailblazers
