{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Dear Asian Americans","title":"034 // Sarah Park Dahlen // Associate Professor of Library and Information Science // Children's Books For All Children","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/32c3d217\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6522,"description":"Meet Sarah Park Dahlen, Associate Professor of Library and Information Sciences at St. Catherine University in Minnesota and one of the biggest advocates for diversity in children's literature. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature. We talk about her growing up in Cerritos, what caused her to change her academic focus while at UCLA, and why studying and highlighting stories of transracial adoptees and diversity in children's book matter so much to her. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6B1bSGF0POwg9bwuIt4z_C5rNK3FJ73EzN0rO9GOpm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzc5OTUvMTY1OTcy/MjY3NC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}