Happy March and Ramadan Mubarak to those who celebrate! This month, we're honoured to interview Charlene Smith, author of Game Changers: Stories of Hijabi Athletes from around the World. Charlene converted to Islam in 1999 when she was 19 years old. She has an identical twin sister, is married with six children (five boys and a girl), and has a 2 year old granddaughter. She loves reading, playing the daff, mountain biking, and downhill skiing.
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Here's a little more about her in her own words.
"I loved writing when I was a child. I have vivid memories of going to the creative writing table in my first grade classroom to write stories when I finished my schoolwork early. I wrote just for fun in those days. As a teenager, I still wrote a lot, but it was mostly for school projects.
"I loved writing when I was a child. I have vivid memories of going to the creative writing table in my first grade classroom to write stories when I finished my schoolwork early. I wrote just for fun in those days. As a teenager, I still wrote a lot, but it was mostly for school projects.