Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb

Veronica Chambers is the award-winning author of many books for children and adults, including <i>Mama’s Girl </i>and <i>Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa</i>. Born in Panama, she grew up in Brooklyn, where she remembers walking to school and seeing Shirley Chisholm for Congress posters all around her neighborhood. She has been a senior editor at the <i>New York Times Magazine</i>, <i>Newsweek</i>, and <i>Glamour</i>, and is currently the editor of Past Tense, the <i>New York Times </i>archival storytelling initiative devoted to publishing articles based on photographs recently rediscovered from its archives.

Rachelle Baker is a multi-disciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan, with a background in relief printing, illustration, comic art, video art, and music. Her work can be seen in <i>The New York Times</i> and will appear in the book <i>Making our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream</i> by Blair Imani, to be published by Ten Speed Press in January. This is her first fully illustrated picture book.