Dovey Johnson Roundtree was an attorney and minister who was one of the first women to be commissioned an Army officer and who helped win a landmark case banning segregation in interstate bus travel. She died in 2018 at the age of 104.
Katie McCabe is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Washingtonian Magazine, Baltimore Magazine, and Reader's Digest, among others. Her National Magazine Award–winning article on black medical legend Vivien Thomas was the basis for the HBO film Something the Lord Made, winner of three Emmys and a 2005 Peabody award.
Raissa Figueroa is a children's book illustrator and overall art lover based out of San Diego, California. She loves taking early morning walks through her neighborhood to greet the sun before it rises with her dog, Ghost, to gather inspiration from the beauty of nature that surrounds us. She is also the illustrator of Sophie and the Little Star, written by Amber Hendricks.
KATIE McCABE is the co-author, with Dovey Johnson Roundtree, of Roundtree's biography
Mighty Justice, winner of the Association of Black Women Historians' Letitia Woods Brown Award. Her National Magazine Award-winning article on Black medical legend Vivien Thomas was the basis for the Emmy-winning HBO film
Something the Lord Made.
Raissa Figueroa is a children's book illustrator and overall art lover based out of San Diego, California. She loves taking in the early morning light while out on walks with her dog, Ghost, and letting her mind meander off to fantastical new places. Raissa is the illustrator of
We Wait for the Sun, written by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe—which earned her a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor—as well as
You Will Do Great Things written by Amerie,
Oona written by Kelly DiPucchio, and
The More the Merrier written by David Martin.