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January 20, 2016 The Skanner Page 11 Bids & Classified Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. cont’d from pg 8 — just learning about our differences and how to find commonalities is our best case scenario for how we will learn to get along on this planet. And the nice thing is that young kids are the most open to something differ- ent. They have no innate preconceived ideas. KW: You have an MBA from UCLA, and started out as a designer/manu- facturer in the fashion “ KW: And then, with three kids, how did you make the transition to a work-at-home-mom? MW: I had to wait un- til my youngest was in preschool for half a day, five days a week, but I how they worked or which blogging platform to use. I figured, if the most technically savvy people in Silicon Valley were using Wordpress, then that was the way to go. I started blogging seven years ago and I got hooked. It took me five years of basically working for free to fi- nally earn income from blogging and, while it’s not much money, it’s sat- isfying in the same way as getting blood from a stone. KW: Tell me a little about your plans for We are trying to get diversity, multicultural and inclusive books into the hands of kids who need them industry. What made you decide to become a stay-at-home mom? MW: I actually started a company out of col- lege with two classmates that has grown into an international creative staffing company called Aquent. When my oldest was born, I was working full-time for Aquent and my husband and I pan- icked about day care for her. He decided to stay home to take care of her, having spent a year try- ing his luck as a profes- Book was itching to start some kind of small business. I had thought of doing a birthday gift registry, so family members and relatives could buy a part of an expensive gift for someone, but I didn’t have the programming skills. I had been recruit- ing an Adobe Flash Evan- gelist for a start-up that my company owned, and I noticed that every can- didate I went after had a blog in Wordpress. I had heard of blogs, but I didn’t really understand this year’s Multicultural Children’s Book Day? MW: We are so excited to be in the position to give away a ton of diver- sity books this year! We are giving away more than 600 books! Teachers can sign up for our Class- room Reading Challenge and we will send them a free hardcover book through our sponsor, Ju- nior Library Guild. We hope to get 400 teachers signed up and we’ve ex- tended the deadline to the end of their school year. Bloggers of any stripe, lifestyle, parent- ing, education, etcetera, get a free diversity book from us and they post their review on January 27th which is included in a linky KW: How would you describe your mission? MW: We are trying to get diversity, multi- cultural and inclusive books into the hands of kids who need them. We do this by raising aware- ness of the great books out there that perhaps are under the radar. We create content to help teachers and parents find the books they need, as well as activities to go along with them. We are also giving books away. KW: How would you define success? MW: Success is when the books published re- flect the ethnic demo- graphics of the United States. KW: AALBC.com founder Troy Johnson asks: What was the last book you read? MW: I just finished Re- becca Stead’s book Good- bye Stranger. I can’t stop thinking about it; it’s that good. But what is really cool is that the newest book by Chris Graben- stein, Mr. Lemoncello’s Li- brary Olympics, uses the same riddle about two people pointing to two PHOTO COURTESY OF KAM WILLIAMS Wenjen sional golfer on the mini tours. When our second was born, he said that if he had to stay home with two kids, he would be forced to leave us, so we decided to switch places. He went back to work full-time in finance, and I stayed home with two kids. And then we had a third! To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu Mia Wenjen, the creator of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, is shown here with her daughters, Ali and Zoe vacationing in Italy. doors. One goes to heav- en, one to hell. One lies, one doesn’t. Which door do you pick? How cool is that? KW: What is your fa- vorite dish to cook? MW: I’m a soup/stew kind of cook. Give me anything that can bub- ble away in a post. I just made Saveur’s Hungari- an Goulash that my fam- ily liked. I used smoked paprika which was my twist. KW: Ling-Ju Yen asks: What is your earliest childhood memory? MW: I was the kid who was squirreled away with a book and an apple. 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