Jo Ann Kairys, MPH, started a new journey after retirement, writing and illustrating children’s stories, founding a publishing house, adapting to technology, and coaching authors and illustrators.

The publishing house has long been a dream of Tran’s, and her monograph of Carlos Peñafiel is just the beginning. The name Siegelbaum, she explains, comes from her mother’s side of the family.

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.