Michelle H. MartinMichelle H. Martin became the Beverly Cleary Endowed Professor in Children and Youth Services in the Information School at University of Washington in 2016, and she was the inaugural Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy at the Uniersity of South Carolina from 2011 to 2016. Her current research project, Dream Keepers for Children of the Sun, is a critical analysis of the collaborative and individual works that Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps wrote for children during their forty-year friendship. Martin cofounded, with Dr. Rachelle Washington, Read-a-Rama (www.Read-a-Rama.org), a nonprofit that uses children’s books as the springboard for programming. Read More Read Less