Cindy L. Rodriguez was a newspaper reporter for the Hartford Courant and a researcher for the Boston Globe before becoming a public school teacher. She is now a reading specialist at a Connecticut middle school. She is also a founder of the site Latinxs in Kid Lit and a critique group coordinator for the New England chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She is the author of When Reason Breaks, a YA novel (Bloomsbury 2015), and “I’m a Survivor,” an essay in Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles (Simon Pulse 2018).