Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first-generation America, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book is Anti-Racist (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2020), a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist, as well as The Antiracist Kid: A Book about Identity, Justice, and Activism (Versify, 2022) and the recently released Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School (Versify, 2024).
Tiffany has been working with children and families for nearly two decades and worked as a Montessori educator for fifteen years. She enjoys exploring social justice with young folks, especially the history of racism and resistance, economic justice, and socially and personally constructed identities. Tiffany enjoys working with educators and supporting them in building strong, authentic communities in which every child can be seen and valued. She co-founded, alongside Britt Hawthorne, ABARatSchool, an organization that strives to support educators and caregivers in their anti-bias antiracist journeys. She also served as the president of the founding board of the national organization Montessori for Social Justice, seeing it through to completing nonprofit status and creating a strong mission to support and amplify Montessorian of the Global Majority across the country. Tiffany lives on the homeland of the Pocumtuc and the Nipmuck with her two young storytellers, husband and a turtle she’s had since she was nine years old.
