Garen Thomas

Garen Thomas is the New York Times best-selling author of the children’s book Yes We Can: A Biography of President Barack Obama and coauthor of The Bicycle Girl, a Junior Library Guild Selection. She produces cable and network television programs and has written for a variety of media, including AERDF’s Reading Reimagined program and the Smithsonian Institute’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past multimedia initiative. She has also edited numerous award-winning books for several publishers, including Scholastic and the Disney-Hyperion imprint Jump at the Sun.