Jul 30, 2021 · 5 min read

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Leadership Team gives their summer reading recommendations.

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It’s that time of year when people unplug, travel and go on vacation. So we’re celebrating the joy and necessity of relaxing and recharging by sharing our leadership team’s recommendations for memorable summer reads. From musings on identity to breathwork to scientific discoveries to social justice — there’s something on this list for every reader.

1. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Recommended by Priscilla Chan

From singer and guitarist Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart is a powerful memoir about family, food, grief and endurance.

“This book highlights the strength that one builds when one is well anchored in their identity,” explains Priscilla Chan, CZI co-founder and co-CEO.

The author shares her experiences growing up as one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon. She also tells readers what it was like to lose her mother to terminal cancer and to forge her own identity rooted in the taste, language and history her mother had given her.

One of the highlights is Michelle’s stories about staying in her grandmother’s apartment in Seoul, South Korea, where she and her mother would bond late at night over food. Priscilla also relates to this tradition in the book.

She says, “Food is something that anchors me to my past and my heritage. It is something that I actively work to pass down to my girls.”

2. Breath, The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

Recommended by Josue Estrada

In this nonfiction work, journalist James Nestor travels the world to better understand the role breathing plays in our well-being.

Josue Estrada, CZI’s chief operating officer, says the book caught his eye because he’s been exploring meditation.

“It explains the science behind breathing — a simple task that most human beings don’t pay too much attention to,” he says.

Breath, The New Science of a Lost Art makes the case that slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jumpstart athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, and halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease.

Josue personally attests to the power of the breathing techniques in the book for overall health, saying some of the methods detailed in the book have helped him stay focused during the challenges of the pandemic. He added that many CZIers would benefit from learning practical breathing techniques from the book and ultimately reduce stress.

3. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

Recommended by Cori Bargmann

CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a relatively new yet powerful tool for genome editing. But, in less than a decade, it’s already led to remarkable scientific discoveries, a Nobel Prize, and emerging therapeutics for genetic diseases.

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race weaves together the story of Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist who co-determined the essential components of the CRISPR gene editing complex and the science of CRISPR.

Cori Bargmann, CZI’s head of Science, recommends reading it both for the personal and scientific perspectives it details.

“At CZI Science, our goal is to support basic science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century, ” Cori says. “It seems very likely that CRISPR, or something like it, will be a significant step toward that goal.”

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4. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

Recommended by Ruby Bolaria Shifrin

In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, author and economist Heather McGhee talks about the shared costs of racism in the United States and how we can prosper together.

“I love the message of hope that is underlying in this book, despite the heart-wrenching stories of our racist past,” says Ruby Bolaria Shifrin, director of Housing Affordability

The book shares the author’s deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm — the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.

Ruby says the book’s themes — particularly the sentiment that we are stronger together — relate strongly to the Housing Affordability team’s work at CZI,

“We are having similar conversations with our housing partners,” she says. “We must organize to rebuild a more equitable and inclusive future where everyone can thrive.”

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Reading proficiency is crucial for all areas of learning, but more than half of American students struggle to read well by the end of third grade. Starting in 2018, an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists, developers, researchers, and students got to work to change that statistic. The Reach Every Reader (RER) initiative aims to use research, supportive interventions, and new and emerging technologies to make significant and lasting progress on the crisis in early literacy.

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Harnessing emerging research, technology, and expertise in product development, Reach Every Reader is a multi-institutional effort to solve America’s early literacy crisis.

“One of my hopes for Reach Every Reader is that we not only contribute to joyful, equitable, and rich learning environments that support thriving readers, but also that we have a greater understanding of personalized interventions,” saidElizabeth City, senior lecturer and executive director of RER. City and her colleagues are working in five areas of focus:

• creating engagement at home for preschool-aged children and their families;
• developing a screener and assessment for K–3 students to help identify areas of strength and weakness and possible personalized supports;
• developing a content-rich intervention for the same age group;
• offering tools and supportive resources for educators, family members, and other adults who work with children;
• and making a commitment to collaboration and scaling solutions for wide-spread impact.

Funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Reach Every Reader is a partnership between HGSE, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili), and the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) and College of Communication & Information (CCI) at Florida State University. Combining the RER team’s expertise in literacy, cognition, early learning, software development, technology and other areas, the initiative has already produced several apps designed to foster conversations between parents and young children. These apps help broaden children’s vocabulary, model sustained back-and-forth conversations, and promote engagement with new words and concepts. Many other tools and resources are currently in development, with remote testing in progress around the country.

“I believe strongly in literacy as freedom,” City said. “Being able to read doesn’t protect you from the worst acts of racism and violence in society. However, being able to read does unlock lots of opportunity and possibility, both in school and beyond school. I think one way of exercising justice is to make sure every child can read.” – Katie Noah Gibson

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Learn more about the Reach Every Reader initiative.

Read about Small Wonders, an early literacy app developed by HGSE faculty in conjunction with Reach Every Reader.

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Explore CBM at Home, an at-home tool for parents, developed in response to COVID-19, that can be used to screen K–3 children for reading risk.