Sunday, September 7th
10:30am CT – Center Stage

Jen Cullerton Johnson is a Chicago-based children’s author, educator, and environmental advocate. She wrote Seeds of Change, a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award–winning biography of Wangari Maathai, and co-authored The Green Literacy Handbook, a K–5 resource that integrates environmental education with literacy and SEL. Jen holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MEd in Curriculum Development. She teaches in Chicago Public Schools and is an adjunct writing professor at Wright College. As co-founder of Green Literacy, she leads workshops and programs that empower young people to think critically, read deeply, and act for a more sustainable world.