{"id":1330,"date":"2022-08-19T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/vera-ahiyya\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T19:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:56:54","slug":"vera-ahiyya","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/vera-ahiyya\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera Ahiyya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vera Ahiyya<\/strong> (n\u00e9e Corbett) was born in Germany and raised in El Paso, TX with her wonderful mother and amazing grandparents. Originally a pre-med student, Vera realized her calling as an educator at Austin College in Sherman, TX, where she majored in History and Psychology and earned her MA in Education. Vera has taught Kindergarten and first grade for the last 16 years in Austin, Boston, and Brooklyn. Vera\u2019s online presence is dedicated to influencing other educators by spreading her vast knowledge and love of diverse children\u2019s books. Vera\u2019s unwavering commitment to social justice and diversity is also the focal point of her professional development presentations for other educators. Vera lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Lonnell and her dog, Mozi. Her latest book is <em>KINDergarten<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1961\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-1024x937.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-768x702.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-1536x1405.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-2048x1873.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-1140x1043.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-920x841.jpg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-575x526.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-380x348.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahiyya-cover-9780593484623-800x732.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vera Ahiyya (n\u00e9e Corbett) was born in Germany and raised in El Paso, TX with her wonderful mother and amazing grandparents. Originally a pre-med student, Vera realized her calling as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1331,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1330\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}