Dr. Lorna Gonsalves has worked as a crisis counselor, university professor, non-profit director, and youth advocate. Her life and work experiences in India and the United States have underscored the importance of storytelling, the arts, and collective action in building a just world. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley region of New York.

Teaching For Change has recommended Little Meena and the Big Swim in their ACTIVISM & ORGANIZING and their SPANISH/BILINGUAL children's books. Proud to be listed among so many powerful little books.

In addition to being an accomplished writer & illustrator, Lorna is a fine musician and songwriter.

Invite her to your school, library or bookshop and she will enlist children and grownups to sing songs of hope and peace; of tolerance and solidarity.