Garen Thomas is the author of the
New York Times best-selling children's book
Yes We Can: A Biography of President Barack Obama and worked as a kids' book editor for Scholastic and Disney-Hyperion and its imprint Jump at the Sun, among other publishers. She lives in New York City.
Suhasini Raj is a New Delhi-based reporter in the South Asia bureau of
The New York Times. She has covered everything from the rise of Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to how India fared with COVID-19 to gender justice and climate change. In 2021, she and her colleagues won a Human Rights Press Award for a video revealing the plight of stateless Muslims in India.