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NATHALIE CABRERA

YEARS AS MENTEE: 1

GRADE: Junior

HIGH SCHOOL: A. Philip Randolph Campus High School

BORN: New York, NY

LIVES: New York, NY

MENTEE’S ANECDOTE: Being with Deb means having meaningful, much-needed conversations. We talk about everything about life in our weekly meetings. Every time I meet her we just feed off each other’s knowledge and we transform this into ideas that become part of our writing as well. Our space has turned into one that is safe and has no filters because no one else gets to judge. It is just us. I love having the opportunity to talk and write and create and have the chance to do things that we love the most.

DEBORAH HEILIGMAN

YEARS AS MENTOR: 3

OCCUPATION: Author of Books for Children and Teens

BORN: Allentown, PA

LIVES: New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITIONS: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers (Henry Holt); YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction winner, Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner for nonfiction, SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner for nonfiction

MENTOR’S ANECDOTE: The first time I met Nathalie, she hugged me, and I knew we were going to be a great pair. And we are. From our very first weekly session, we have been able to talk deeply and truthfully about a range of subjects, from the personal to the political. We talk so much sometimes we realize we haven’t written—yet. And so we write, and when we do, it is magic, the words flowing out of us, into the space of safety and comfort we have created together. I am so grateful to have this opportunity to work with Nathalie.