Sentences with phrase «national ambassador for»

With pride, Shelley shares that Kiku has been named the AKC national ambassador for the Akita breed for her teaching contributions!

Buddy suffered from kidney failure, and his owner, Morris Frank, then the national ambassador for the Seeing Eye, sought Dr. Morris's advice.

Recently, Gene Luen Yang, who has had several titles published through First Second, was named the first ever graphic novelist to be the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the 2018 - 2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and she received the 2018 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and has written and drawn many graphic novels, including American Born Chinese, which was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of YALSA's 2007 Printz Award and an Eisner Award.

Katherine Paterson, two - time winner of both the National Book Award (The Great Gilly Hopkins and The Master Puppeteer) and Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I loved), is the second person to be named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Books by the two - time Newbery medalist and former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature are always publishing events, and this will be no exception.

I'm so excited and honored to be appointed the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature!

This week, the Library of Congress appointed graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang as the 2015 - 2016 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

The Dream of America by Jacqueline Woodson Nancy Paulsen • August 28 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Woodson takes a cue from The Breakfast Club in her upcoming novel centered on a group of six vastly different middle school classmates who are thrown together — seemingly at random — by their teacher.

Forthcoming titles include The Prince: A Selection Novella by Kiera Cass, a companion to the New York Times bestseller The Selection; Tags, a one - act play by National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Walter Dean Myers; and One Day More, a prequel novella to bestselling author Aprilynne Pike's forthcoming novel, Life After Theft.

A hilarious saga of growing up in a household with five brothers during the 1950s and 1960s by the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, illustrated with candid pictures from the period.

THE DREAM OF AMERICA by Jacqueline Woodson (August) The first middle grade novel in six years by four time Newbery Honor winner and current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

Myers served as the third National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2012 - 2013), authored over a hundred titles, and won countless awards, including two Newbery Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, and was a three - time National Book Award finalist.

In 2012 he was appointed the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and served for two years.

In 2010, Walter was the United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 2012 he was appointed the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving a two - year tenure in the position.

Paterson, a Newbery Medalist and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, writes from her own abiding faith as she adds her careful embroidery to Saint Francis» canticle.

Other authors you can see live and in person: Chris Pavone, author of The Expats; Padgett Powell, author of You & Me; Jay Jennings, editor of Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany; Amy Franklin - Willis, author of The Lost Saints of Tennessee; Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia; Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy; Katherine Paterson, the former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature who is beloved for her novel Bridge to Terabithia; David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story; Dan Chaon, author of Stay Awake: Stories; Alice Randall, author of Ada's Rules: A Sexy, Skinny Novel; Ta - Nehisi Coates, author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and the Unlikely Road to Manhood (and a contributor to The Atlantic); Sharon Creech, author of The Great Unexpected (and Walk Two Moons!)

We contacted DiCamillo, who is a two - time Newbery Medal winner and now both the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature AND the National Summer Reading Champion, to talk about summer reading and just how awesome it is:

Donalyn Miller, national ambassador for independent reading at Scholastic, offers tips for encouraging reading at home.

Last Friday, I posted that award - winning author Jacqueline Woodson, who also happens to be a queer mom of color, had been named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

Rin and I have both recently come on board as National Ambassadors for the Read More

In the process, they touched the hearts and the lives of the people who loved them at the Sanctuary, while also becoming national ambassadors for other dogs forced into illegal dog fighting.

This year Neighbour Day has been honoured to have Senior Australian of the Year, the Hon Fred Chaney AO and Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis come on board as National Ambassadors for Neighbour Day.

Not exact matches

To test his palate, Lorne Cousin, the national brand ambassador for Balvenie, gave O'Leary a test.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported stunning new information about retired U.S Army Gen. Michael Flynn, who was briefly the National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump before being fired for lying about his troubling contacts with the Russian ambassador to Washington.

Senate confirmation is not required for the White House national security post, and Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will inherit a staff of several hundred specialists from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies.

As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.

Flynn, who was Trump's national security adviser for 24 days and was also a top campaign adviser, has admitted to lying to the FBI about two of his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.

She is also a member of Astia Angels; on the Advisory Boards of two venture capital firms, StarVest Partners and Illuminate Ventures; the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst Experts Advisor Group; the AAAS - Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Advisory Committee; and on the «Making Value for America» expert advisory committee for the National Academy of Engineering.

«Stuart was such a big part of CSW's history, serving as our National Director for 19 years before stepping down and becoming Special Ambassador, a role he served in until the end.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council president (chair) Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation fellow Tony Beam, North Greenville University vice president David Benham, entrepreneur Jason Benham, entrepreneur Ken Blackwell, former US Ambassador to the UN for Human Rights Teresa S. Collett, University of St. Thomas professor Jim Garlow, Skyline Church in San Diego, California Mark Harris, First Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina Jack Hibbs, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, California Harry Jackson, International Communion of Evangelical Churches Richard Lee, There's Hope America president Paige Patterson, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Everett Piper, Oklahoma Wesleyan University president Jay Richards, The Catholic University of America economics professor Dr. Steve Riggle, Grace Community Church in Houston Samuel Rodriguez, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Kelly Shackelford, First Liberty Institute president Carol Swain, Vanderbilt University professor

The Costa Rican government report recommends that Oliver North, General Richard Secord, former National Security Advisor John Poindexter, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, and former CIA station chief in Costa Rica, Joseph Fernandez, be banned from Costa Rican territory for life because of their involvement in illegal gun and drug operations.13

The signatories include Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals; Scott Arbeiter, president of World Relief; Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Shirley V. Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities; Jo Anne Lyon, ambassador and general superintendent emerita of The Wesleyan Church; and Hyepin Im, president and CEO of Korean Churches for Community Development.

A famous compromise was agreed: «The Electors, Princes, Estates of the Empire and the ambassadors of the same... while awaiting the sitting of a Council or a national assembly, agreed... each one to live, govern, and carry himself as he hopes and trusts to answer for it to God and his Imperial Majesty.»

She also sits on the advisory committees for the James Beard Foundations» Women's Leadership Advisory Committee and is the Culinary Ambassador for Sweet Home Café at the Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Since then, the program has expanded to hundreds of schools nationwide, thanks to the efforts of Rosati's national brand ambassadors for children's nutrition: Sean Trotter, Nate Todd and Greg Hoffman.

He roots for the Maple Leafs and supports the Raptors and recently became an ambassador for the National Bank of Canada, but would just as easily fit in at a California beach playing frisbee while talking to his high school buddies about midterms as he does in a toque or on a tennis court.

Nathan retired in 2012 and is now an ambassador for the National Badminton League.

Carey Casey is the Ambassador for Fathers with the National Center for Fathering.

Carey Casey is the Ambassador for Fathers with the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the culture of fathering in America by enlisting 6.5 million fathers to make the Championship Fathering Commitment.

Carey Casey, Ambassador for Fathers with the National Center for Fathering, is a dynamic speaker, inspiring audiences with a call... Read More»

She remains to this day an ambassador for the National Autistic Society, calling for more research into diagnosing autism in girls.

A former spokesman for the Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode, has said that the suspended Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador...

In the coming year, Hysick will serve as an ambassador for teachers throughout the state and will be the New York State nominee for the National Teacher of the Year.

A former spokesman for the Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode, has said that the suspended Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke did not spend any money on the former President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.

Tory Boyz, which Graham wrote in 2008 but has now revived for a run by the National Youth Theatre at the Ambassadors Theatre, is equally as incongruous for modern theatre - goers.

Apart from the outgoing US Ambassador that is expected at the open public hearing, the Committee also extended invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the three accused lawmakers, the National Human Rights Commission, as well as the other seven members that attended the leadership programme.

Broadcast Journalist, Captain Smart has been unveiled as Ambassador for the Ghana National Ambulance Service's «Operation Save a Soul» campaign.