AFSCME Maryland @afscmemd.org AFSCME Maryland Council 3 represents over 55,000 public service workers. From Western Maryland to the Eastern Shore, we make Maryland happen.
SVA Faculty United - UAW @svafac-uaw.bsky.social https://svafacultyunited.org/
The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org We are Unitarian Universalists. We are brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers.
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The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social The Author Village is a collective of forward-thinking and award-winning children’s book creators, educators, and librarians available for in-person and virtual school and library visits, conferences, workshops, and professional development experiences.
Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social Local historian, bike rider, and #RStats developer. Planner for Baltimore city. Poster at @elipousson@dads.cool
Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (2024) Macmillan/
St. Martins Essentials/Sounds True
Tarot & Politics zine editor • they/he
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City
www.mxlanesmith.com
Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social I write things and sometimes I build things. Other times I do fuck-all. I try to align my opinions with the facts, rather than the other way around. Photo by lacyphoto.bsky.social who was getting booked with me.
@rickhutzell.bsky.social @rickhutzell.bsky.social I'm a columnist for The Baltimore Banner. I explore the world from the vantage point of Annapolis, a little city on the Chesapeake Bay.
Emmanuel Mehr @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social Public Historian of/in Baltimore City | President @historycoffee.bsky.social Georgetown History MA '21 | NCPH Membership Committee | SABR Historian/Editor | Opinions Mine | He/Him
Afscme Local 44 @afscmelocal44.bsky.social BALTIMORE CITY Municipal Employees Union
Local 44
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**THIS IS NOT THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT'S PAGE**
Waiting for spring @lillyrose1.bsky.social Librarian. Long term activist. Adore my pets. 38 years sober. Books and music and like-minded people make me happy. Our current situation has me furious.
blooming sludge @ledesordrecestmoi.bsky.social 5-6 apples tall woman.
for anarchy and communism. against the existent. bmore something.
she/her
🔞 mdni
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Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslweb.bsky.social Building the movement for a socialist future in the United States!
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Beyond Video @beyondvideo.bsky.social Baltimore's volunteer-run video library—basically, an old-school video-rental store, with a non-profit twist. We offer 40,000+ titles on the blu-ray, DVD, 4K UHD, and VHS formats.
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Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 3-9pm.
Labor Signal @laborsignal.bsky.social Labor news, issues, and resources.
The Labor Force @thelaborforce.bsky.social The Labor Force unites all workers, allies, and activists to strengthen the labor movement through groundbreaking organizing and strategic partnerships. https://thelaborforce.org/
Second Chance, Inc. @secondchanceinc.org Unique #jobtraining #nonprofit selling 250,000 sqft of used goods! #Salvage #Deconstruction #Sustainability #Donations #Reentry #BMore #SocEnt | 410-385-1700
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✨tanvi 🥰 she/her @tanvicious.bsky.social 🌈queer scorpio midwife 🩷 bisexual aquarius rising anti racism organizer 🌻 immigrant virgo moon nurse educator 💎 chaotic ciswoman 🤠
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USA based
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social Community Organizer / Unionist / Spooky Liker
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Sarah @dazed2.bsky.social Person of many different interests. Books, TV, Orioles, Baltimore
Amanda Engel @acengel.bsky.social Journalist at WMAR-2 News in Baltimore, Maryland. #localnews
Originally from St. Louis, MO. Go Cardinals! (And Orioles!)
#merrillmade Go Terps!
PeggyTheRover @hatestech.bsky.social Living the dream with my neurodivergent, multigenerational household.
Julie @juliefitzpat.bsky.social Public librarian, wife, mother, gardener, birder, cat mom. Love music, history, journalism & politics. Proud AFSCME member; union strong! Abolish ICE and love thy neighbor.
Julie Hoffman, EdD @hoffiecup.bsky.social She/her Educator. Reader. Writer. Poet. Researcher. Vegan. Abolitionist. Radical listener. NCTE. NAACP. Illinois Reading Council. Shattering barriers. Building bridges.
Actually, it’s Dr. Hoffman.
taylor ✌🏻 @bravelittletaylor.bsky.social baltimorean with western maryland roots.
cat owner, bird watcher, collector of hobbies.
she/her 🩵💜🩷
Matt @mattredinger.com 🦀 Baltimore
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🎲 TTRPGs
💻 Tech
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ev @whateverestt.bsky.social book enthusiast / librarian / women’s hockey fan [they/them]
Kerry Graham @mskerrygraham.bsky.social I am loudly and proudly:
🦀 from Baltimore
💅 childfree
🧠 neurodivergent, apparently—I was diagnosed in April ‘25
✍️💫📑 my essays and vignettes for @thebaltimorebanner.com:
https://www.thebanner.com/author/kerry-graham/
she/her/hers
Jen Sheehan @jenwsheehan.bsky.social Comms, NewsGuild of New York, TNG-CWA; ex-journalist
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social I used to hang TVs over rich people’s fireplaces and went to school for music. Now I’m a 3rd-term city councilman in my hometown, Baltimore.
Ben Serber @mentalengineer.bsky.social #1u Contract Enforcement Staff, @taup4531.bsky.social; @newsguild.org Local 38010 member; prev. @ndunited.bsky.social, FSU-GAU. You are not required to complete the work; neither are you free to abandon it. All opinions my own.
stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social she&they // baltimore md // reading @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay // writer library worker good time AND i <3 my union
Gama Valle | KidLit Author - is out on sub @gamavalle.com él/he | Author ✍🏼 Casting Director 🗂️ Theatre Director 🎭 | 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 | Rep’d by Leah Pierre of Ladderbird Literary Agency
KINDNESS GROWS IN THE DARK-Barefoot Books- out now!
gamavalle.com | https://tr.ee/xnyTkFHJQH
Mariana Llanos ⭐️Visits Schools!⭐️ @marianallanos.bsky.social Children’s writer, poet, translator 🇵🇪🇺🇸2024 Pura Belpré Honor: Benita y las criaturas nocturnas/Benita and the Night Creatures⭐️Vampirita and the Angry Mob ⭐️Run Little Chaski! & more. #LatinxPitch co-founder. #Oklahoma Teaching Artist.
marianallanos.com
Claudia Marianno @claudiamarianno.bsky.social Ilustradora br represented by Advocate Art
Ana Siqueira @asiqueira.bsky.social teacher, author, abuela and vovó. Kids are my life. 🇧🇷🇨🇺🇺🇸🍮
Adriana Hernández Bergstrom @adriprints.bsky.social Author + Illustrator | 🇨🇺 | she/her | Rep: Wernick&Pratt | Abuelita & I Make Flan 🍮 / TUMBLE 🏜️ / Countdown for Nochebuena 🎄
Adrianna Cuevas @adriannacuevas.bsky.social Award-winning middle grade author. What Fell From the Sky and Rancho Espanto paperback out now! she/her 🇨🇺 Runs on pastelitos and BTS.
https://linktr.ee/adriannacuevas
Steena Hernandez @steenahernandez.bsky.social Kidlit Author | Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers OUT NOW Beaming Books | SCBWI | Las Musas | 12x12PB
https://linktr.ee/steenahernandez
Aixa Pérez-Prado @professoraixa.bsky.social Mom, artist, writer, reader, professor, viajera, soñadora, bilingüe 🇦🇷📚https://www.aixaperezprado.com
Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social YA Author
www.writesandrawrite.com
Salvación (Out 5/20/25)
Preorder:
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/salvacion-9781250895080/
Relit (Out Now!)
The House Where Death Lives (Out Now!)
Literary Associate at Gallt & Zacker
www.readsandraread.com
Gabby Zapata @gabbyzapata.bsky.social Art director . Character Designer 🇲🇽🇨🇴🇺🇸 Former: Disney, DWTV, Netflix, Nick hello@gabbyzapata.com
Gabbyzapata.com
Vanessa Morales @phonemova.bsky.social 🇲🇽 |Illustrator / Children’s books | MG Book Covers| Magic,Nature,Fun,Spooky,critters💚
Repped by @fullcirclelit
|www.linktree.com/phonemova
Lorcana✨
Macmillan,Scholastic,HarperCollins,S&S,LBBYR,Disney Books,Penguin Random House🖍️etc
Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
Zoraida Córdova @zlikeinzorro.bsky.social Writer. Cryptid. 
Irena Freitas @irenafreitas.com Author & illustrator, from Manaus, Brazil 🇧🇷 Represented by Adriana Dominguez at ACM Kids Illustration 🏡✨
https://linktr.ee/irenafreitas
Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social So-NEE-doh
he/they
Base form known as Sonora Reyes
bestselling and award-winning author
https://sonidoreyes.carrd.co/
Aaron H. Aceves @aaronhaceves.bsky.social He/him. Author of THIS IS WHY THEY HATE US. Latino. Aqueerius. Harvard '15. Columbia MFA '20. UT Austin Professor. #FreePalestine
Mirelle Ortega @msmirelle.bsky.social 🇲🇽 award-winning artist and writer for kidlit and animation. Author/illustrator of MAGIC and RIVER OF MARIPOSAS.
Website: https://www.mirelleortega.com/
Instagram: @msmirelle
Newsletter: https://mirelleortega.substack.com/
Nathasha Padrón @muakata.bsky.social ♾️🌈 Children’s Books Illustrator | TTRPG | Books
https://links.muakata.com/
Federico Erebia @federicoerebia.bsky.social PEDRO & DANIEL
Lammy Award - Winner
Intl. Latino BA - Winner x2
MA Book Award - Longlist
Ohio Book Award - Finalist
Crystal Kite Award - Honor Book
Américas Award - Commended Book
Linktree: linktr.ee/FedericoErebia
Website: FJEbooks.com
Brittany Pomales @brittanypomales.bsky.social Children’s Book Author
Host of Kidlit Haha Week
SM & Publicity for The Little Press
Buy IT STARTED WITH A P 👇🏽
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738107/it-started-with-a-p-by-brittany-pomales-illustrated-by-andrew-joyner/
jonny garza villa @jgv.bsky.social they/them sagittarius sun and award winning writer
Laura De La Cruz LOWRIDER FOR SALE (Disney-Hyperion 2026) @vrukaslt.bsky.social #KidLit author | Retired library media tech | #SCBWI | #12x12 #pb | Mamá | Wife | Lowrider lover | Pan Dulce connoisseur | 🇺🇸Chicana🇲🇽 | Rep’d by Leah Pierre - Ladderbird Literary Agency | lauraadelacruz.com | https://linktr.ee/laura_delacruz
Katiuska Pino @katiuskapino.com ✨ open for picture books and early readers projects.
✨ currently seeking representation.
🌈 www.katiuskapino.com/
Paulina Suárez @pauillustration.bsky.social Ilustradora // Illustrator 🇲🇽 #Illustrator
www.paulinasuarez.com
Prints & Art for sale, DM
IG: @pauillustration 
Mariana Ríos Ramírez @marianarios.bsky.social 🇲🇽🇺🇸Kidlit author | SANTIAGO’S DINOSAURIOS - AW’22 | ABUELITA’S GIFT - KNOPF’24 | SCBWI | RYS | Storyteller Academy | Las Musas | 📷 Photographer| K-drama ♥️ I PB Rising 🌟 l Dog 🩷 l Chai Latte fan l Rep’d: Natascha Morris
https://linktr.ee/MarianaRiosR
Diana Castillo | Author/Illustrator @dianaacastle.bsky.social Cuban Mermaid & Author/Illustrator, repped by Saritza at Andrea Brown Literary Agency!
📖 Snap! Crunch! Munch? (Holiday House, 2025)
📚 Detective Fuego series (Simon Spotlight, 2027 & 2028)
#Kidlitart & #Comic Portfolio: dianacastleart.com
Daniela Ramirez @writerdaniela.bsky.social Kidlit Author | Wife & Mami | Chicana | WELCOME HOME, ESMERELDA (Charlesbridge, May 2025)| @SCBWI | Rep: Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency
writerdaniela.com
Rosa is Busy 🇵🇷🏳️🌈🖤 @sodapopcomics.bsky.social Rosa Colón Guerra 💖 She/Her 🔥 Soda Pop Comics & Tintero 👏🏼 Comics & Illustrations ✨ Repped by M. Zacker 🫡
Portfolio: rosacolonguerra.com
Directorio: casadeilustracion.com/freelancers/rosacolon
Cynthia Harmony @cynthiaharmony.bsky.social #Kidlit Author
Latest: A Flicker of Hope /Un Aleteo de Esperanza 🦋
Upcoming: Apapacho Love '26
Forest en Familia '26
Row Sow Grow '26
Hasta Pronto is a Promise '27
linktr.ee/cynthiaharmony
Teresa Rodrigues @teresarodrigues.bsky.social Histotechnologist turned Children’s Books Author
📚 WHERE THEY GATHER (Atheneum, ‘26)
Rep’d by @christietellsastory from @the_cat_agency
Juliana Salcedo @jusabar.bsky.social Children's book illustrator based in Madrid. Repped by Susan Hawk
Portfolio: https://www.jusabar.net
Substack: https://jusabar.substack.com/
Cindy Lozito @cindylozito.com Artist | Rep’d by Saritza Hernández at Andrea Brown for kid lit | Somehow have a 5+ year duolingo streak | Philly📍
Juanita Londoño | Kidlit Illustrator @juanitalondo8o.bsky.social 🩷Rep’d by Robyn Newton at @the_bright_agency
🌼Clients: HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Quarto, Familius, Target
🖍️Domestika course
Lauren Gallegos @laurengallegos.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator
Rep’d by Christy Ewers @TheCATAgency.bsky.social
Www.LaurenGallegos.com
Paola Santos @pgsantosb.bsky.social Venezuelan children's book author. A HOUSE IN MY BARRIO (Henry Holt. Fall 2026), HOW TO EAT A MANGO (2024). Rep’d by Jen Rofé.
https://linktr.ee/paolagsantos
Mónica Mancillas Author @monicamancillas.bsky.social Mexican-American kidlit author living in the UK. 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧
Books 📚:
Mariana and Her Familia
The Worry Balloon
How to Speak in Spanglish
Sing it Like Celia
Taco Tuesdays
Leyendas/Legends
My Barrio Sings in Spanglish ('27)
Rep: Melissa Edwards, Stonesong
S.A. Rodriguez @sarodriguezauthor.bsky.social Latina Children’s Author 📚
✨TREASURE TRACKS✨
sarodriguezbooks.com
YamileSMendez @yamilesmendez.bsky.social Author. Mom. Fútbol. Animals. 
Gabriella Aldeman @writebetween.bsky.social Spanish translator and PB author. PAULA'S PATCHES (FreeSpiritBooks), SQUAWK OF SPANISH (Charlesbridge), SOMETIMES A DREAM (Versify, 2027). Rep’d by Jennifer Unter
Jackie Morera (she/her) @jmorerabooks.bsky.social Latina author of IN CASE OF LAS MOSCAS (9/8/26), TOGETHER WE REMEMBER, ABUELO’S FLOWER SHOP, and more!
Alexandra Alessandri @apalessandri.bsky.social 🇨🇴🇺🇸 Children's Author. Educator. Next in '24: Our Wold: Colombia, Lupita's Hurricane Palomitas, & Grow Up, Luchy Zapata. Rep: Deborah Warren @ East West Literary Agency.
Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social Award-winning Nuyorican kidlit writer. Published poet. Author of MI TIERRA, an early-reader-in-verse, available NOW from Reycraft!
lissette norman @lissettenorman.bsky.social afro-dominican. poet. picture book editor. author of MY FEET ARE LAUGHING, PLÁTANOS GO WITH EVERYTHING, ABUELA’S LIBRARY (6/11/24). ΔΣΘ 🇩🇴 lissettenorman.com
Delia Ruiz @aventuras.en.esl @aventurasenesl.bsky.social 📝 First-gen Latina author
📚 Sharing new Latine picture books
🤝 Trusted by parents, teachers, & librarians
🔗 Resources & Goodies 👇🏽
https://lnk.bio/AventurasEnESL
Sara Fajardo @safajarwrites.bsky.social Dual immersion teacher and author I Crack Goes the Cascarón '25 I Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa '25 I A Tanta Wawa for Abuelo '26
Repped by Nicole Geiger-Full Circle Literary
#LatinxPitch Co-founder
she/Ella
www.sarafajardowrites.com
Amanda Carbonell @amandacarbonell25.bsky.social Puerto Rican. She/Her. MG, YA, & NA Writer. Rep: Sara Megibow at Megibow Literary Agency.
Usually falls for the villain 📚.
Author Site: amandacarbonell.com
Substack: https://substack.com/@amandacarbonell
Misc: linktr.ee/amandacarbonell
Kelly Esparza Is Agented Again! @kellyesparza.bsky.social Mystery writer for adults & teens | poetry chapbook @bottlecappress | freelance editor | EIC: @flarelitmag.bsky.social 🔥| layout: Anahita Karthik | she/her | rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social @madwomanliterary.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kellyesparza
Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social National bestselling & award-winning cartoonist. Creator of MISS QUINCES (out now!) (Scholastic Graphix) and illustrator of THE KIDS IN MRS Z'S CLASS.
Rep. Linda Camacho
(She/they)
🌈 www.katfajardo.com
🌈 linktr.ee/katfcomix (⬅️ Preorder link)
Kim V Writer @kimvwriter.bsky.social LatinX writer of kidlit and my abuela’s stories. Featured in LatineLit, Somos en Escrito, Acentos Review, The Caterpillar, LatinX Lit Mag. Las Musas mentee ‘24
Jo Salazar (she/they) @paperyjoey.bsky.social Illustrator 🖤🤍💜
Paper cut and paint
📍Lisbon
Rep’d by @tajmccoy.bsky.social
josalazar.com
Sheila Colón-Bagley 📚 Latina Author @sheilaluvsbooks.bsky.social 🇵🇷 Latina Kidlit Author | Picture Books | SUMMER IS JOYFUL IN EL CAMPO ‘27 | LA NOCHE BEFORE THREE KINGS DAY ‘23 | Girl Mom | Charlotte, NC
Justin Colón @justincolonbooks.bsky.social Children's Author. Professional Voice & On-Camera Actor. Backyard Beekeeper. Classical Pianist in training.
Author Website: justincolonbooks.com
Critiques & Consultations: kidlithive.com
Santi Casares @santiagocasares.bsky.social Latinx Kidlit author/illustrator
www.santiagocasares.com
Pigeon Friend @simonlcupcake.bsky.social 
@cadomesticworkers.bsky.social @cadomesticworkers.bsky.social Organizing to expand and enforce rights and dignity for housecleaners, nannies, and caregivers in CA. #MyHealthMyDignity
Presente.org @presenteorg.bsky.social Presente.org is a powerful and growing Latinx political force advancing social justice with technology, media, and culture. Build Power. Change Culture. Stay ¡Presente!
SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social Working together to provide quality education for children & students, ensure that education remains a state priority, & provide quality public services.
www.seiu925.org
Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social Social scientist; Cancer-haver; Baltimore- enjoyer; Special education and disability; Ambivalent about the discourse
@birdlanddad.bsky.social @birdlanddad.bsky.social 
Cristella 🐳 @cristellal.bsky.social Still bored beyond belief. 🐕🦺🧶🪢📘🎞️♓️🗽
Marianne @epona668.bsky.social Librarian
she/her
Too many open tabs
Opinions all mine
becca @magicjewball.bsky.social Former record label weasel turned school technologist. I like music and sports and tech and the Interweb. And you. Especially you.
Baltimore/NYC
Justin from librarypunk @smazzie.bsky.social library worker, free rider, wobbly, he/they.