2022 ALAN Breakfast Speaker Announced
The 2022 ALAN Breakfast speaker will be Angeline Boulley!
Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Her debut YA novel Firekeeper’s Daughter is the winner of the 2022 Printz Award, Morris Award, Walter Award, Edgar Award, and a American Indian Youth Literature Award Young Adult Honor Book. It was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, a TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time selection, and a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA pick. Firekeeper’s Daughter is being adapted for Netflix by the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground. Angeline’s second novel Warrior Girl Unearthed will be available on May 2, 2023.
