W. KAMAU BELL, the co-author with Adam Mansbach of Rock Paper Scissors Cheese (Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR), illustrated by Breanna Chambers, is a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning television producer, documentary director, bestselling author, Substacker, part-time activist, stand-up comedian, husband, and dad. He is a New York Times bestselling author with a chapter in Michael Lewis’ latest book, Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service, and the co-author of Do The Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book. He directed the award-winning documentaries We Need to Talk About Cosby (Showtime) and 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed (HBO). Kamau is best known for his docuseries United Shades of America (CNN). Currently, he writes weekly on his bestselling Substack Who’s With Me? He is on the board of directors of DonorsChoose, a nonprofit that helps teachers raise money for class projects, and Live Free, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization. Kamau also is the ACLU’s artist ambassador for racial justice.
