Uma Menon
Uma Menon was born in 2003 and raised in Winter Park, Florida. Growing up, she could not find stories that reflected her experience in a multilingual house, so she wrote her book My Mother’s Tongues at age sixteen. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and the Progressive, among many other publications. She was a National YoungArts Winner for three consecutive years and has been nominated thrice for the Pushcart Prize. Uma Menon was the first Youth Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival and an Encore Public Voices Fellow. She studied public and international affairs at Princeton University and is currently a student at Yale Law School. You can find her at www.theumamenon.com.