Kudos: Lorraine Garcia-Nakata

Occupation: Executive director and publisher

Home: San Francisco

Achievement: García-Nakata heads the award-winning Children’s Book Press, which creates authentic, first-voice literature that gives young readers a sense of their history and culture.

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