manute bundles manute bol journey from sudan, the nba and back again and his story a death in valdosta. his podcast, sonic boom, was named one of the top 50 podcasts of 2019 by the atlantic and was nominated for a webby award. his piece, the end of the hoop dream, was named among the top ten stories of 2015 by long form dawg jordan as on the protest movement in hong kong. the refugee experience on the turkish border and the aftermath civil war in the ivory coast and the independence movement in what is now sudan. here in the states, he has written features about survivors of the pulse nightclub shooting and about the police killings of tamir rice and breonna. he is a graduate of the uc berkeley graduate school of journalism and lee university. jordan is also the 2021 dayton literary peace prize runner up in nonfiction for the road from rockwall. please welcome jordan ritter conn. this there's a word that comes up several times in andrea elliott's remarkable, necessary and gorgeous invisible child. a word that struck me every time i encountered it. there were just presents. andrea descr