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Illustrator
Juanita in 2021

Kaylani Juanita McCard, professionally known as Kaylani Juanita, is an illustrator. Her work focuses on activism, empowerment of people of color, and LGBTQ+ people. Her work has appeared in publications through Chronicle Books, Cicada Magazine, and Lee & Low Books. Her first book illustrated, Ta-Da! by Kathy Ellen Davis, was released by Chronicle Books and nominated for an Young Readers award via the 38th Annual Northern California Book Awards. In 2018, ELLE Magazine featured her work and interviewed her at length in context of her memorial illustrations based on the murder of Nia Wilson, a black woman who was fatally stabbed in a suspected hate crime while exiting a BART train. In 2017, she illustrated "9 Books for Woke Kids," an article by Guinevere de la Mare.

Education

Juanita attended B. Gale Wilson Elementary School in Solano County's Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District as well as Rodriguez High School. While attending Rodriguez, Juanita spent a summer studying at CalArts. She then attended Solano College before transferring to California College of the Arts. She earned her BFA in Illustration from California College of the Arts. As of 2019, she is working on a Master's in Design at the University of California, Davis.

Personal life

Juanita is based in Fairfield, CA and identifies as a mixed-race femme queer person.

Awards and honors

When Aiden Became A Brother

Kaylani Jaunita and Kyle Lukoff published When Aiden Became a Brother in 2019. In 2020, the book was awarded the Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award, landed a top spot on the American Library Association Rainbow List, and was named a Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book.

Bibliography

  • A House for Every Bird by Megan Maynor, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita, (2021)
  • When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2019)
  • Watch Us Rise by Reneé Watson & Ellen Hagan, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2019)
  • Ta-Da! by Kathy Ellen Davis, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2018)
  • Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2020)

Podcasts

  • The Creativity Habit

References

  1. ^ Penrose, Nerisha (July 26, 2018). "How Kaylani Juanita Is Using Her Art and Instagram to Honor Nia Wilson". ELLE.
  2. "Starfruit | VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
  3. "Nominees" (PDF). www.berkeleyside.com. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  4. ^ "Inside Solano" (PDF). www.solano.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  5. Woodrow, Melanie (July 24, 2018). "'He was wiping off his knife': BART stabbing victim recalls horrific attack that killed sister". ABC7 San Francisco.
  6. Dakin Andone and Dan Simon. "Officials still don't know why a white man allegedly stabbed a black woman to death in a subway station". CNN.
  7. ago, Guinevere de la Mare • 2 years (September 6, 2017). "9 Books for Woke Kids to Read This Year".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. "Kaylani Juanita | VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
  9. "Kaylani Juanita". www.kaylanijuanita.com.
  10. ^ "Kaylani Juanita, illustrator-The Creativity Habit".
  11. ""When Aidan Became a Brother" and "The Black Flamingo" win 2020 Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award". 27 January 2020.
  12. "The 2020 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  13. "Charlotte Huck Award (Fiction for Children)".
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