Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young on the Importance of Children's Book in Bridge Building and on Journeying through Grief
Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison
Be the Bridge
4.9 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Be the Bridge Podcast, Latasha Morrison interviews author, speaker, and Bible teacher, Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young. Her recently released picture book, Kailani's Gift, celebrates family, Filipino heritage, and dance while showing the importance of perseverance and cultural expression. Dorina shares about her journey as a writer, and they discuss how children's books can serve as tools for racial justice. Dorina also shares her personal experience with grief.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Be the Bridge podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Be The Bridge exists to empower people and culture toward racial healing, equity, and reconciliation. |
| 0:13.0 | Latasha Morrison founded Be The Bridge in 2016 to foster needed dialogue and brave spaces |
| 0:19.0 | and to give people the tools to pursue racial justice. |
| 0:23.0 | We provide resources and community to do just that. |
| 0:26.1 | And this podcast is one of those resources. |
| 0:28.7 | You'll hear interviews hosted by Latasha and our team, conversations about current events, |
| 0:34.2 | and encouragement for your racial literacy journey. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you for listening, subscribing, and engaging in this important work. |
| 0:43.4 | Well, I tell you, being in the rich community, we, just being in this space, having a podcast, |
| 0:51.6 | you get to meet so many different voices, just different people that are doing just |
| 0:57.6 | a lot of different things. And being a writer myself, being an author, I come in contact with a lot |
| 1:04.0 | of authors, writers, speakers, ministers, practitioners, all the things. And in this space, you know, a lot of times you cross past with people. |
| 1:15.4 | And especially being, both of us are under Waterbrook. |
| 1:19.6 | I've just discovered that. |
| 1:21.6 | And I actually got to meet this person that we're about to interview at my book's launch in Nashville. |
| 1:29.7 | She just happened to be there in Nashville, although she's from California. |
| 1:34.6 | So I am so glad that we have Dorina Lazo Gilmore Young, who has a master of fine arts |
| 1:42.5 | in children's literature and a passion for multiculturalism. |
| 1:47.1 | And I don't know if I've met anyone with the Masters of Arts in Children's Literature. |
| 1:51.5 | So this is going to be great. |
| 1:53.7 | She is a writer-speaker, former news reporter and a foodie. |
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