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Michelle Figueroa Author

Michelle Figueroa has 15+ years of experience as a bilingual journalist, producer and filmmaker, mostly for CNN en Espanol. She's also contributed to CNN.com, PBS/World Channel, WGBH, NPR/WBUR, Al Jazeera (AJ+), NY Post, Fusion, Discovery, Univision, and Hearst. While working as a journalist for national networks, she worked as a salesperson for the local Univision station. Prior to that, she worked as the Marketing Director of Telemundo Boston in her early 20s and before that, in Houghton Mifflin's College Division. Now Michelle runs The Good News Movement social media platform where she curates GOOD NEWS ONLY because "you are the good news." Ramona Kaulitzki is the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sisters First, as well as Wonderful You, Badger's Perfect Garden, The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller, and several others. She enjoys creating characters and breathing life into them while imagining the worlds in which they live, and her love of animals and nature is a major inspiration for her work. She invites you to visit her online at ramonakaulitzkiart.com and @ramonakaulitzki.