UPCOMING AND RECENT EVENTS


March 9, 2024
Women’s History Month Festival at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. From 1-1:30 pm, I’ll be talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reading from I Dissent and Becoming RBG, and leading a fun drawing activity. Information here: https://npg.si.edu/event/women’s-history-month-festival and here: National Portrait Gallery Celebrates Women’s History Month With a Festival, Programs and Exhibitions | National Portrait Gallery (si.edu).

June 25, 2023
I Dissent story time and Becoming RBG graphic novel workshop, part of Washington, DC’s new Capital Jewish Museum’s Community Day: The Life and Legacy of RBG. I Dissent event runs from 11:30-11:50 am; Becoming RBG event, with the excellent and talented Erica Perl, is 12:15-1 pm; book signing at 1:15. Free, but registration is required, and includes admittance to the exhibit Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Register here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/cjm-community-day-the-life-and-legacy-of-r-tickets-132589.

October and November 2022
Classroom visits at Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy Spring, MD, part of the all-school read of I Dissent and Becoming RBG

November 16, 2022
Program for patients and families at the Children’s Inn, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

June 11, 2022
Cecil County Public Library Children’s Book Festival. North East Branch Library, North East, MD, 10 am-1 pm—My first in-person event in two years!

March 3, 2022
Politics & Prose Bookstore virtual event for Photo Ark ABC—on World Wildlife Day! 10-10:45 am. Free. Register: P&P Live! Debbie Levy | PHOTO ARK ABC: ANIMAL ALPHABET IN POETRY & PICTURES Tickets, Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite

December 8, 2021
PEN/Faulkner virtual author visit with Hart Middle School, Washington, DC, about Becoming RBG

October 24, 2021
SCBWI Mid Atlantic Virtual Fall Conference, presenting panel on “Facts and Form: Writing Compelling Nonfiction and Historical Fiction for Young People,” with Mary Quattlebaum, J Albert Mann, Ginger Park, and Joan Waites, 2:30-3:30 pm

October 18, 2021
PEN/Faulkner virtual author visit with Center City PCS - Brightwood, Washington, DC, about Becoming RBG

September 24, 2021
Virtual presentation with Jo Ann Boyce about This Promise of Change, Community Read for grades 5-9 at St. Bernard’s School, NYC

August 12, 2021
Virtual event hosted by Politics & Prose Bookstore, talking with Laura Elliott about her new young adult novel, Walls

June 9, 2021
Virtual author visit, Reading Partners Seattle, featuring Dozer’s Run