

- Description
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I’m Luz Maria Mack, a proud children’s book writer from the South Bronx. My work is rooted in a deep desire to empower children—especially those with Dominican and African roots, through culturally relevant stories and 2D animations. This journey began when my daughter, Chloe, who was just three years old, asked to dye her hair blonde. That moment revealed a deep need for joyful, reflective stories that center and celebrate our children.
Some highlights of my work include:
🏆 Best Animated Short Film, Bridge Fest (2020)
📚 ¡Pequeña María Descubre su Baile! featured on PBS’s Chat and Learn (2021)
✍🏽 Co-author of Family is Everything (Disney Encanto) with the Disney Storybook Art Team
🌟 The Secret of the Plátano (2022): #1 Amazon New Release + Best Picture Book of 2023 by Bank Street College of Education
📣 Out now! My newest book, Bachatica, is available from ConTodo Press—a rhythmic, joyful story that celebrates music, movement, and cultural pride.
🎬 Many of my books are also available as 2D animations on KweliTV and KidsBeeTV. Our animated short Santo & Sheepy has reached over 43,000 views in just two months!
✨ Coming soon:
New projects with Abrams and McGraw-Hill (stay tuned!)
- Number of employees
- 0 - 1 employees
- Year established
- 2016
- Company website
- https://luzmack.com/
- Categories
- Communications Market research Product or service launch Marketing strategy
- Industries
- Apparel & fashion Education Entertainment Media & production Publishing & printing
Socials
Recent projects
Data Analytics – Customer Insights & Dashboard Development
Organization Description: Project Overview: This project focuses on analyzing customer behavior and developing a data dashboard to visualize business insights that support strategic decision-making. Learners will clean and prepare data, conduct exploratory analysis, and design an interactive dashboard using a tool such as Notion. Final deliverables will include a dashboard, a business insights report, and a summary presentation. Project Duration: 6 Weeks Project Hours: 150 Project Hours Per Learner: 30
Fundraising Specialist Intern
We are looking for someone entrepreneurial who is hungry and looking to learn about startups. This is a non-paid internship and main focus as an educational program to help people transition into and learn about the educational creative space highlighting marginalized communities. WE ENVISION THIS PROJECT TO: Generate various fundraising initiatives; work closely with founder to develop weekly fundraising activities Design or produce materials such as posters, Web sites, or newsletters to promote, market, or advertise fundraising events. Develop strategies to encourage new or increased contributions. Compile fundraising data for future data entry We envision this Student to: • Currently attending a college or university • Strong understanding and passion for social media • Studying marketing or digital/social media marketing • Love for education and advocating for marginalized communities • Thoughtful, detail-oriented, and capable of multi-tasking • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Desirable: Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint • Please include any relevant links or information in your cover letter
Virtual Internship Opportunity: Social Media and Project Admin
A virtual internship opportunity for interested college students that have an interest in marketing and helping with the expansion of the company. The primary focus of the student will be: Assist in developing marketing communication campaigns to promote books and virtual literacy endeavors Drafting social media and email content as needed Outreach to schools, libraries, bookshops, and community organizations to promote literacy efforts and host virtual literacy events Operations - Recommend process improvements or redesign processes; develop improvements to supply chain processes to be more responsive to changes in demand; introduce quality assurance into our internal processes; redesign incentive structures to improve engagement. Marketing - Complete a full customer, competitor, market, and environmental analysis; complete a marketing strategy review; design a new marketing strategy (product, place, price, and promotion); conduct an overhaul of our branding or communication strategy. Planning, promoting, and executing a wide range of nonprofit fundraising events. Assisting with the coordination of donors thorough research of potential new clients and contracts. Other duties the student may complete could include : (indicate other duties as exemplified below) Create business plans, presentation decks, and assist with presentations to key stakeholders. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: email, zoom, and phone Student's primary contact : Luz Mack- Founder
Social Media Educator Champion Intern
Immigrant families first encounter the U.S educational system when their children enter preschool or kindergarten. The experiences these children have in their classrooms are fundamental to how they think about themselves as learners, students, and members of the communities around them. Based on a report released in July 2018 (Report 4-2019) from the Office of the New York State Comptroller’s Office titled, An Economic Snapshot of the Bronx, say’s “Immigrant population has more than doubled, increasing from 18 percent in 1980 to 37 percent in 2016 (the same as the citywide share). Three-quarters of all immigrants in the Bronx are from Latin America. The number rose nearly fivefold since 1980 to 412,500 in 2016. I believe that these families and children that are coming from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds face tremendous hardship. One of the realities these families face is realizing the educational system might lack resources to help families and the educational system may lack tools to help families acclimate to their new home while preserving cultural customs. Nearly two out of three children are unable to read at grade level and will benefit from literacy path programs such as a Social Media Educator Champion Intern Social Media Educator Champion Intern Roles will be broken up into the following divisions: Tiktok Youtube IG Linkedin WE ENVISION THIS PROJECT TO: Organize an online community that promotes literacy, educational activities such as crafts, science DIY projects, and math games for kids and young adults! These events will engage community members and help cultivate a culture of learning. On a weekly basis promote virtual online events that will be conducted by IG Live, FB Live, and Zoom and video record storytime events for those that are unable to join the event so they have an opportunity to replay it on social media. Read a curated list of books for 15-20 minutes from various age groups. Contribute to content creation Planning, promoting, and executing a wide range of nonprofit fundraising events that will help raise money to provide free books to the community. Create short, snappy, and informative social posts for events that can be shared with families that promote literacy. We envision this Student to: • Currently attending a college or university • Strong understanding and passion for social media • Studying marketing or digital/social media marketing • Love for education and advocating for marginalized communities • Thoughtful, detail-oriented, and capable of multi-tasking • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Desirable: Proficient in Word, Excel, Powerpoint and/or Pages, Numbers, Keynote • Desirable: Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and basic comfort working in web-based programs • Please include any relevant links or information in your cover letter • Understand the importance of literacy in breaking the cycle of underachievement IG Fall 2020 Interns Work https://www.instagram.com/luzmackofficial/
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