Committees : Tomás Rivera Book Award : Texas State University

Tomás Rivera Award Director

Nancy Valdez-Gainer

Nancy serves as the director of The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award. She is currently a lecturer at Texas State University in the department of Curriculum & Instruction. She was born and raised in Austin, Texas and is a proud Chicana whose parents and grandparents were migrant farm workers. Nancy spent 18 years in Austin ISD as an elementary ESL, bilingual and a dual language teacher and as a Language Arts District Curriculum Specialist.Her research interests include culturally sustaining teaching, multicultural children’s literature, writing workshop and parent engagement.

National Committee

Denise Davila, Assistant Professor, University of Texas - Austin

Sergio M. Martínez, Professor, Texas State University

Patricia Enciso, Professor, The Ohio State University

Oralia Garza de Cortés, Latino Children's Literature Advocate

In Loving Memory

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Member Emeritus

Regional Committee

Are you interested in Latino children’s and young adult books? Join the Regional Committee. Contact Director, Sandra Murillo-Sutterby at riverabookaward@txstate.edu

Luz Alvarez-Simms
Don Bos
Meaghan Buchanan
Sylvia Flores
Juanita Galaviz
Diana Garcia
Jesse Gainer
Mari Garza
Gilberto Lara
Blanca Loyal
Miriam Martinez
Kim Morgan-Benson
Sharon O’Neal
Susan Perez
Joanne Salas
Arlene Salazar
Lucy Velez
Graeme Wend-Walker