Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Olugbemisola performed at a SpeakTogether Student Matinee at Fordham High School for the Arts in the Bronx on March 8, 2022 speaking on the theme, “Being and Becoming,” and at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Belmont Preparatory High School in the Bronx on May 23, 2024, speaking on the theme “The Impossibility of Certainty.”

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of 8th Grade Superzero, It Doesn’t Take a Genius, the nonfiction books Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow and Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins, and the upcoming Mae Makes a Way and Saving Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Fight for Our Future. She is the coauthor of the middle-grade novel Two Naomis, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and its sequel, Naomis Too. Inspired by some of her favorite family stories and the city she loves, Operation Sisterhood is a celebration of the sweetness and spice of sisterhood. Olugbemisola is a member of the Brown Bookshelf and a former board member of We Need Diverse Books. She lives with her family in New York City, where she writes, makes things, and needs to get more sleep. Discover more about Olugbemisola online at olugbemisolabooks.com.

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