{"id":15,"date":"2020-02-14T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:57:46","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JennyReading-1.jpg\" alt=\"A child around ten years old, wearing a hot pink and black striped sweater and large purple glasses peeking out under her thick bangs, holding a book open at a kitchen table and looking at the camera with a surprised expression. \" class=\"wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JennyReading-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JennyReading-1-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Jenny is a children&#8217;s writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. As a Chicana, MIT grad, autistic, chronically ill, mother of two, her work often explores themes relating to STEM education, disability and accessibility, and Chicanx culture and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Jenny&#8217;s debut picture book, AGAIN, ESSIE?, illustrated by Teresa Mart\u00ednez, was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathicalbooks.org\/2023\/02\/2023-mathical-winners-announced\/\">2023 Mathical Book Prize<\/a> for Pre-K. MEASURING UP: HOW OLIVER SMOOT BECAME A STANDARD UNIT OF MEASUREMENT was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsta.org\/best-stem-books-k-12-2026?srsltid=AfmBOorB9deBbegDxMkh802uGrUTqYPBpQbu8oQQzaPzPfDCBAOq2-aO\">NSTA Best STEM Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny is a children&#8217;s writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. As a Chicana, MIT grad, autistic, chronically ill, mother of two, her work often explores themes relating to STEM education, disability and accessibility, and Chicanx culture and history. Jenny&#8217;s debut picture book, AGAIN, ESSIE?, illustrated by Teresa Mart\u00ednez, was awarded the 2023 Mathical Book Prize&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennylacika.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}