She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World

About Kathy MacMillanManuela Bernardi

Kathy MacMillan is a nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter writer teacher librarian and storyteller. She is the author of the board books Nita's First Signs and Nita's Day (Familius) children's nonfiction book She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World (Familius) the young adult novels Sword and Verse and Dagger and Coin (HarperTeen) and nine books for parents librarians and educators including Little Hands and Big Hands: Children and Adults Signing Together (Huron Street Press). Manuela Bernardi is a film and TV writer based in Rio de Janeiro Brazil where she was born and raised. She has collaborated on award-winning feature films and has written on shows for TV Globo TBS GNT Multishow and the History Channel. Her screenplay for the short film The Healing Tree won USC's Peter Stark Special Project grant and went on to be selected for Cannes's Short Film Corner. With a BA in journalism from PUC-Rio Manuela got her MFA in writing for screen and television from USC in Los Angeles which she attended on a Fulbright/CAPES scholarship.