Author Connection

Our Author Connection program brings authors into schools to speak with students about their work. For example, author/illustrator Laura Freeman visited 30 AVID students at Ridgeview and 45 Sandy Springs Charter Middle students for Black History Month, Julie Freeman visited 55 Spalding students for Read Across America, Oriel Selver visited 79 Lake Forest Elementary students as part of our partnership with Building Talent Foundation to promote females in construction. Danny Schnitzlein visited 28 Summer Book Club students and their families.

SSEF surveyed students at all author visits. Many students had never met an author prior to the event and this program witnessed an increase at each visit in the number of students mentioning that they were considering being an author or illustrator after hearing the speaker. This program served 237 students at an annual cost of $8.00 per student.