UMA MISHRA-NEWBERRY is a feminist strategist, movement architect, and former Executive Director of Women’s March Global and former Interim Executive Director of FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund. With over two decades of leadership in grassroots organising, philanthropy, and infrastructure design, she has worked at the intersection of global systems change and deep relational care—building durable, justice-centered structures to support youth-led and feminist movements worldwide.  Her work has been featured in TIME, Ms. Magazine, CNN, Al Jazeera, Devex, and Newsweek, among others

Her advocacy has reached global platforms, including the United Nations, and she played a key role in the international campaign to release Saudi activist Loujain AlHathloul. She is also the co-author of the award-winning children's book Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers, written with Loujain's sister Lina AlHathloul and published with Astra Books for Young Readers.

Winner of Middle East Outreach Council Best Picture Book 2022

Winner of Bookstagang Best Picture Book Biography 2022

Selected for the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Children's Books of the Year

Selected for Rise: A Feminist Book Project 2023

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REVIEWS:

"One of the 20 Best Books To Read in March: "Poetic, moving, and empowering." Kirkus Reviews

"Successfully makes a real-life issue accessible for the youngest audiences." Publishers Weekly

"One of the Best Children's Books of 2022 (So Far). With dreamy illustrations, this is a story to read before bed to inspire dreams of courage and to read during the day to remind us not to give up." Tinybeans

"Heroic and emotional text … striking illustrations…. This gorgeously illustrated book inspires hope and reminds readers always to fight for justice." Shelf Awareness for Readers

"This heart-filling and beautifully presented story will entice our children, parents, and teachers alike to support and empower our future change-makers where it is needed in the world around us." Yasmine Aslam-Hashmi, We Need Diverse Books

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