Rebecca Lee Kunz is the artist and owner of Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working at the intersection of environmental justice and cultural awareness. Rebecca is a painter, printmaker, and illustrator, and the 2025 Randolf Caldecott medalist. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Rebecca’s work draws upon tribal iconography and archetypal symbolism. She infuses mythology into her work where she is in conversation with each tale as a living and emergent story. A visual storyteller and folklorist, she hopes to illuminate awareness about our shifting climate and to inspire solutions to the issues of today. Through her picture book illustrations, her goal is to inspire children so that they may see themselves in the visual stories she tells.

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