💥 Bestselling Book Publisher 📚 Award-winning Entrepreneur 🎯 Data-centric CEO 🔥 Top 10 book publisher in America 👩🏻 Feminist 🧨 Championing NEW Voices 🎤 Inspiring Speaker 🌎 Immigrant ❤️ Chicago home 💥 🌝 A pleasure to meet you! A bit about me: 💡 Founder + CEO of award-winning book publisher Sourcebooks ⭐️ 100’s of bestselling kids and adult books (NY Times+ USA Today) 🔥 Over 200 million books sold 👩🏻 Now largest woman-owned book publisher in North America 💯 Ex-statistician turned book entrepreneur ✅ Bootstrapped start-up from $17k 🌊 Pioneer in digital publishing + recognized book industry innovator Mission: ❤️ helping authors, illustrators and other impactful storytellers create extraordinary success and discovering new voices #BooksChangeLives 🎯 E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 💥 Publishers Weekly Person of the Year 🎤 TEDx 💎 Inc 500 ☄️ Strand Magazine Publisher of the Year 🖋 Board of the American Writers Museum 📚 Always with a book in my hand Seen in: NY Times, WSJ, Fortune, Inc, AP Some of the bestselling books and authors loved publishing: * Freed — E L James * This Book is Gay — Juno Dawson * Twisted Love — Ana Huang * I’m Not Dying with You Tonight — Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal * The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek — Kim Michele Richardson * Hip Hop Speaks to Children — Nikki Giovanni * The Winter Sea — Susanna Kearsley * P is for Pterodactyl — Raj Haldar * Radium Girls — Kate Moore * 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle — Stu Turton * Poetry Speaks (all of them) * How to Catch kids series (5MM copies sold) * Baby University (bestselling kids science books including Quantum Physics for Babies + ABCs of Science and lots more)— Chris Ferrie * Welcome Little One — Sandra Magsamen * This is Where It Ends — Marieke Niekamp * The Fiske Guide to Colleges — Ted Fiske * The Last Flight — Julie Clark * If I Could Keep You Little and Be Brave Little One— Marianne Richmond * Sold on a Monday — Kristina McMorris * Love from our friends at Sesame Street (love working on the Street!) * Me and White Supremacy — Layla Saad “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin 💬 My DM’s are open ⬇️⬇️ on Twitter and IG: