![]() I read a lot of young adult books-uplifting stories about young girls in the suburbs finding themselves-and I was getting frustrated because there were very few black girls in these stories. THE IDEA FOR MY “WE READ TOO” APP CAME TO ME In 2015, she was honored at the national Black Girls Rock! awards and received special recognition from First Lady Michelle Obama. Kaya also started her own YouTube channel called Code With Kaya, which includes tech tutorials in computer coding aimed at beginners. ![]() KAYA THOMAS ’17, a computer science major from Staten Island, New York, created We Read Too, a mobile app that features a directory of more than 600 children’s and young adult books with characters of color, by authors of color.
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