Katie Smith Milway, winner of the 2009 Massachusetts Best Book for Children Award and 2009 Children's Africana Book Award, for ONE HEN: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, is on a quest to bring world issues to elementary and middle school children. ONE HEN, set in Ghana introduces kids to microfinance and the power of social entrepreneurship and gave rise to a curriculum --- One Hen Academy (www.onehen.org) --- used by educators around the world to teach youth entrepreneurship and giving back.

Her 2010 book, THE GOOD GARDEN: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough, is set in the Honduran hillsides and introduces kids to the concept of food security and how each of us, at any age, can combat global hunger (www.thegoodgarden.org). Her 2012 book, MIMI'S VILLAGE AND HOW BASIC HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMED IT, set in Kenya, connects kids' actions for global health to results in Africa (www.mimisvillage.org). And her latest book, THE BANANA-LEAF BALL: How Play Can Change the World, shows the value of sport and play for social and emotional learning in a refugee camp in Tanzania --- and on any playground where kids may feel unwelcome or excluded.

Katie is also a partner in Boston with nonprofit and philanthropy advisor The Bridgespan Group. She has served on the board of World Vision US, has coordinated community development programs in Latin America and Africa for Food for the Hungry International and was a delegate to the 1992 Earth Summit. She has written several adult books on sustainable development, including THE HUMAN FARM: A Tale of Changing Lives and Changing Lands (Kumarian Press, 1994), which documented the work of sustainable agriculture pioneer Don Elias Sanchez (role model for The Good Garden's teacher).

Prior to Bridgespan, Katie served as editorial director and founding publisher at Bain & Co. A graduate of Stanford University, The Free University of Brussels and INSEAD, Katie spent a decade working in and around more than a dozen countries in Africa and Latin America on sustainable development projects, including village banking, food security, primary health care, water resourcing and education.

Books by Katie Smith Milway

The Banana-Leaf Ball: How Play Can Change the World

by Katie Smith Milway and Shane Evans - African American Interest, Children's 4-8, Cultural Studies, Culture, Fiction