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Yusra Farzan

Yusra Farzan is a multimedia journalist who has reported on social issues as they intersect with race and religion for The Guardian, Insider, NPR, Buzzfeed News, Teen Vogue, NextCity.Org and PBS SoCal KCET. Her career began at UAE's largest English news daily, Gulf News on the entertainment beat. She holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California. In her free time, she loves to bake, read, watch soccer or go on hikes.

Sheila Modir, a pediatric psychologist, and her husband Jeff Kashou, a marriage and family therapist, teamed up to write “The Proudest Color,” a children’s book that deals with racism. They just won the Anna Dewdney Read-Together Award. They are pictured in Irvine on Monday, June 5, 2023. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Want to talk to your child about race? This children’s book from a pediatric psychologist and family therapist may help.

June 7, 2023 at 12:57 p.m.

Sheila Modir and Jeff Kashou drew from their clinical background to write a children's book on how to speak positively about race.

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