2023 John Steptoe Winner

Jas Hammonds, author of We Deserve Monuments, (Roaring Brook Press, a division of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)

Janelle Washington, illustrator of Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Roaring Brook Press, a division of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)