January 15, 2025
Literacy Night at Jackson-Reed High School, Washington, DC. I’ll be there with my new book, A Dangerous Idea—and other books!

January 14, 2025
Hooray! Publication-day launch event for A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original fight Over Science in Schools at Politics & Prose Bookstore. 6 pm at the bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, downstairs in the Children’s and Teens space.

October 30, 2024
Assemblies at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Rockville, MD.

October 22, 2024
”Read to Reef” program sponsored by Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Library and the National Aquarium, featuring Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us. I’ll be at the Govans branch library from 4-5 pm talking about my book — and you will receive a free copy if you register and attend! Doors open at 3:30 pm. Information here: https://allevents.in/baltimore/debbie-levy-change-is-in-the-air/10000935974283277#google_vignette.

October 9, 2024
Keynote Breakfast at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) FallCon, introducing A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science in Schools. https://www.mountainsplains.org/authentic-voices-keynote-breakfast-fallcon24.

September 11, 2024
I’ll be in Boston at the New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA) Fall Conference sharing advance copies of my forthcoming upper middle grade book, A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science in Schools. If you’re attending, please stop by and say hi at the Author’s Reception at 5:30 pm. More here.

August 22, 2024
It’s the 13th annual SLJTeen Live! free virtual event, a day-long program looking at the latest and exciting forthcoming titles for teens and tweens - including my forthcoming book A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science in Schools. My book is about the famous Scopes “monkey” trial of 1925 and efforts to keep science teaching out of public schools. I’ll be in conversation with Amanda Jones, whose book, That Librarian, is about her own trials today — 100 years after Scopes — in speaking out against censorship in public libraries. More information and registration here.

May 31, 2024
All-school assemblies at Fallsmead Elementary School, Rockville, MD.

May 2, 2024
Classroom visit at Shirley Chisholm Elementary School, Washington, DC, with An Open Book Foundation. Sharing Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us with third graders.

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