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Oct 2020
29m 48s

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, M.S.Ed (@jtbi...

WILL DEYAMPORT, III, ED.D.
About this episode
On this episode, I Zoom in Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, M.S.Ed, and we chat about what led her to become an author, how her faith and identity have influenced her writing, and we get into her books, Your Name Is A Song and Mommy's Khimar. 
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