Community, Author & Leader Interviews . By Maya Smart | April 01 , 2014

How Tamika Lamison (Founder of Make a Film Foundation) Makes Things Happen

Most of the women I’ve interviewed on this site are very successful in a traditional sense. They’ve worked hard, climbed the

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Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Library & Literacy Advocacy, Author & Leader Interviews . By Maya Smart | November 07 , 2014

How Katie Meyler Fights for Girls in Liberia

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Maya's Favorites, Author & Leader Interviews . By Maya Smart | March 11 , 2015

When Books Are the Best Medicine: Fostering Literacy in the ER

Sometimes the best thing an emergency room doctor can give a kid is a book. In a world where low-income children hear 30 million

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | April 09 , 2016

New Fiction Confab to Feature Kaitlyn Greenidge, Virginia Reeves and Maya Smart

Please join me on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at the John Henry Faulk Central Library, 800 Guadalupe St., Austin, TX for the New

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | January 23 , 2017

Mychal Denzel Smith On Social Transformation Through Personal Awakening

Necessary and audacious, Mychal Denzel Smith’s assured debut, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, fuses

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