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EP39-Plant Your Feet & Take the Charge with Kristin Nitz

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In this episode:

As a teen, Kristin Nitz was not only aware of Title IX, she lived it. The law passed during the time she was playing basketball for her school. Kristin was fortunate to have a male coach who embraced the spirit of the law by demanding that his team benefitted from the new-found athletic equanimity they deserved. This experience served as a inspiration for her prolific writing career. Among many other topics, Kristin writes about the triumphs and challenges of the female athlete.

About the Author:

Kristin Nitz is author of three novels for children and young adults.  Defending Irene, is set in Merano, a town in the Italian Tyrol where she lived for three years.  Saving the Griffin, is set in Tuscany. It was nominated for a 2009/10 Georgia Children’s Book award and a Kentucky Bluegrass Award (grades 3-5).  Her young adult mystery, Suspect, was a nominee to the YALSA Best Books 2011.

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EP31-Life is to Participate, Not to Spectate with Kathrine Switzer

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Deb has the great privilege to interview the amazing and inspirational Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered registrant in 1967, during which she was accosted by a race official for merely being female. In this episode, Kathrine talks about her life as a child and how her experiences prepared her for the race of a lifetime.

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Access the image to learn about the 261 Fearless organization.

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Click on image to learn more about the NCTE presentation and the authors that will be joining Deb then.

Click on image to learn more about the NCTE presentation and the authors that will be joining Deb then.

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EP22-There's No Glory in Easy with Kim Chaffee

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Author Kim Chaffee candidly discusses the inspiration for her incredible debut non-fiction picture book HER FEARLESS RUN: KATHRINE SWITZER’S HISTORIC BOSTON MARATHON, and how the experience has had a lasting impact on her life. Motivated by a deep dedication to health and family, Kim’s caring and humble spirit is demonstrated by the philanthropic organizations she has developed and participated in. Listeners will want to cheer Kim on as #ThisWriterRunsBoston in support of Switzer’s 261 Fearless.

About Kim Chaffee:

Former teacher, Kim Chaffee is the debut author of the epic non-fiction picture book HER FEARLESS RUN: KATHRINE SWITZER’S HISTORIC BOSTON MARATHON to be launched in April, 2019. While working on Kathrine Switzer’s story has taught Kim that running in magic and with each step comes strength. Kim is a cofounder of New in 19, a group of authors and illustrators with trade picture books debuting in 2019.

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EP21-Big Goals Require a Long-Term Mindset with Silvia Acevedo

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Author, reporter, and avid athlete, Silvia Acevedo, shares her passion for competitive speed skating, a sport she discovered as an adult. Silvia explores the diligence and devotion required to achieve personal and professional goals, on the ice and in all other aspects of life. She states that to crush lofty goals, an individual must own a daily commitment to work on them, little by little, each and every day.

About Silvia Acevedo:

Silvia Acevedo is a journalist and novelist. In her 20 years in news, she’s interviewed presidential candidates, covered national and international stories, and given breaking news reports for CNN and local TV and radio stations around the country. She’s guest hosted a television morning talk show featuring the lighter side of news on Milwaukee’s NBC station. Silvia currently freelances at various news publications and performs voice-over work.

All her years reporting objective fact enticed her to delve into her imagination in her off time. Ms. Acevedo brought fiction — particularly mythology — back into her life. Once she did, the gods of old pestered her until she relented to write about one in particular. The result is the God Awful series of books, starting with God Awful Loser, its sequel, God Awful Thief, and a final book on the way.

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EP04: The DNA of Rock Climbing with Kristin Lenz

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In this episode:

Deb explores Kristin’s love of nature, mountains, and the treacherous sport of rock climbing. It’s astounding to know that Kristin’s life-long passion for scaling the dangerously sheer edges of a mountainside inspired her award-winning novel The Art of Holding On and Letting Go. In this episode, Deb and Kristin engage in a deep-dive literary analysis of the novel and the inspiration that lies behind it.

About Kristin Lenz:

Kristin Bartley Lenz is a writer and social worker from metro-Detroit who fell in love with the mountains when she moved to Georgia and California. Now she’s back in Detroit where she plots wilderness escapes and manages the Michigan Chapter blog for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Her debut young adult novel, The Art of Holding On and Letting Go, was the 2016 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize winner, a 2016 Junior Library Guild Selection, and chosen for the 2017-2018 Great Lakes Great Books state-wide literature program. 

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