Our Ambassadors
Our wonderful world-wide ambassadors are educators, authors and life-long lovers of reading. They are so proud to be part of this movement to ensure children all over the world have the opportunities and learnings that reading - and being read to - can bring us all.
We love having them as part of the IRTMD community. Would you like to become an ambassador too? We’d love to hear from you!
Jill Boggiss
Bahrain & UK
Jill works for Clore Social Leadership as a leadership development coach. She is also the founder of Sweet Jilly Designs who raise funds for The Saturday Biryani Party with workers from a community-based organisation in Bahrain.
Sam is a long-term volunteer with the Child Writes program and works as a firefighter in Toronto. Azra works as an emergency physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto and is an enthusiastic volunteer with refugees in Toronto.
Jan Savage
Sri Lanka
Jan is currently in the process of registering her UK-based charity called Me Mohothe Sita (meaning From This Moment), with the goal of raising funds to help impoverished children. She is also a qualified teacher of English as a foreign language and regularly gives lessons to young children from her own home.
United States
Over the past decade Demetra has served as caretaker to both her late mother, and late-husband; mother to a now 'tween', Katerina; business owner; designer; cancer patient; and renowned author.
Her 'The Letters From Around the World' series encourages children to speak languages by helping them sound out foreign alphabets.
Germany
Born in Piraeus and of Cretan origin, Eleni Vassiliou is a self-taught painter and poet. She has held solo exhibitions and has participated charity groups. She has published two poetry collections, a play and a children’s book dedicated to the fight against childhood cancer.
USA
Rita Verreos is first and foremost a lover of all things God, a wife, mother, daughter, sister. On a professional level, she is a multimedia talent with varied and extensive experience as an actress, a television and radio host. She was one of only a handful of News Anchors presenting newscasts simultaneously in English and Spanish as the TELEMUNDO New Mexico and Fox News in Texas. Most recently, she created ‘Storytime with Ms. Rita’.
England
I am a busy and happy mum, a qualified educator, a nursery manager, author of two children’s books, writer in my www.letstalkaboutchildren.com educational website and when not teaching, working ,playing with children I enjoy reading, cooking, shopping and drinking coffee in my green terrace somewhere in South West London.
Greece
Marina is a mum, author of two children’s books, a publisher, founder of “Greece, storytelling paths” initiative. A member in the following organisations: Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI-US), also a member of the International Board on Books for Young People – ΙΒΒΥ of Cyprus and at Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD- US) and when not working, writing and playing with children I enjoy reading and making Lego constructions.
Lameck Elneus
Tanzania
I'm Lameck Elneus Bagumya from Tanzania 24 by age , I'm pursuing history and political science at University of Dar es Salaam. I have worked in Tabora region as an ambassador from 2016-2018, then shifted to Dar es Salaam where I’ve kept rising the children via reading.
Greece
Agatha lives in Patras, Greece, in north Peloponnese. She is a writer, teacher (Dyslexia/STM/ADHD/Autism), blogger, translator. Agatha serves as the Ambassador & Global Co-Host for Multicultural Children's Day(MCBD) for Greece and she is the Founder of Greek Children Read & Write (Creative Writing for Children completing their own books). She teaches English and French at her school, in Patras-Greece
USA
Emmanuella Macri is the author and illustrator of the children's book Older. She loves to read, write, draw, and work with kids. She is currently studying at a university to become a K-8 teacher.
Iran
Sahar is a mother, an author and illustrator, and a Multicultural Children’s Book Day Global Co-Host. Her latest work ‘Hearing is BEAUTIFUL’ is based on her first book ‘My Cochlear Implants’.
India
Principal at Ramagya Dadri, Microsoft Innovative Education Expert,. Certified National Geographic Educator, With 18 years of experience in teaching and management in education industry verticals.
Being a mother I fully understand the concerns of parents for overall development of their ward so under my leadership the school gives a holistic development environment to the kids.
Indonesia
I am a Program Development and Donor Relation Coordinator at Yayasan Usaha Mulia and in charge of an education project. I love reading, watching a movie, and getting involved in voluntary activity when it related to children and youth development
Polly Lee
China
Polly is the Sales Director at Shenzhen Jinhao Color Printing Ltd creating beautiful childrens picture books
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Zahra Kabiri
Iran
Zahra Kabiri is a children's book Illustrator, and the founder of Varta Publications, a local publisher of children's books in Iran. She is also an Art Facilitator for children who want to experience the joy of creating their own books.
Panama
Carmen is an Engineer and a Philanthropist, in love with learning and reading everyday. She has a strong motivation of helpings others which is why she works with small children everyday and provides them with early childhood education that will aid them to develop as prepared and productive adults in the future.
Greece
Created a pioneering teaching method Let’s Play Boomwhackers “Learn English through Music and Play” and it has been used with great success throughout Europe.
USA
Mother, Educator, Award Winning Author, Translator and Publisher. Founder of LuzDelMes Projects and Tri Anthologies. Eight Books published. Seeking Master in Theology for Educators. Member: FWA, MCBD, ANLMI Costa Del Tesoro. Recipient of Crystal Apple 2006, VCB Poetry 2015, Latino Book Awards 2016, Author’s Talk Book Show 2017- American Eagle 2020
Vietnam
I am an English Tutor in a rural Vietnam. I'm teaching English for Kindergartens and Primary Students. We learn English as a foreign language in my town, we just spend almost time learning grammars and for exams, and I realized that reading books for my children can help us improve our vocabulary learning, and reading out loud helps my students be more confident to learn a language.
