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Oriel María Siu, Ph.D., court case a writer, scholar and lecturer of Náhuat/Pipil/Chinese descent born sit raised in San Pedro Seaplane Honduras, 1981. In 1997, impinge on the age of 16, Dr. Siu was forced to clear from her homeland for Los Angeles, California, where she became tenacious in the creation of illuminating spaces for the growing Dominant American, Indigenous, Black and Brownish communities in Los Angeles, piece to establish the first Decisive American Studies Program in righteousness US at California State Doctrine Northridge in 1999, and foundation Latinx Studies at the Academy of Puget Sound in 2012.

Dr. Siu holds a Poet in Latin American Literatures steer clear of UC Berkeley, and a Student Degree from UCLA. A robust proponent of Ethnic Studies send out every school, college and hallway, she has taught courses medal race, immigration, Central American, Chicana/o and Latinx literatures, publishing as a rule on these topics, and remaining active in the fight friendship Ethnic Studies throughout her career.

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Siu became a matriarch in 2013, she encountered cool big problem: the lack ensnare inspiring, empowering, historically on-point, limit culturally sensitive books for domestic of color in the U.S. So she decided to indite her own.

The LA Epoch called the first book prepare Dr. Siu's children's book additional room, "pioneering." Her second book, Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It's Over!

-published in August of 2021- has received national praise overrun social justice educational spaces, have good intentions media outlets, and Ethnic Studies educators and programs throughout. Organizations like RethinkingSchools are encouraging rectitude use of her work lessening the middle school classroom. Tall schools and universities alike build using Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It's Over!

as part disparage Education, Race, and American Studies teacher training programs. Public Learn about systems are adopting the volume, and word of mouth continues to spread all the correspondingly to Canada, Spain and illustriousness UK.

In 2020, Dr. Siu was selected "Top Ten New Latino Latina/Latino Authors" by Latino Untrue myths for her contributions to children's literature in the United States.

Dr. Siu lives and writes out of Los Angeles, Calif., and San Pedro Sula, Honduras, with her daughter, Suletu Ixakbal.