By Shayne Rodriguez Thompson, Photo: wikimedia/WhiteHouse.gov, HipLATINA, January 28, 2022
The ever-inspiring Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, just released her fourth children’s book earlier this week, Just Help! How to Build a Better World, inspired by her beloved mom. Sonia credits her with instilling an attitude of positivity and optimism in her. Celina Báez Sotomayor died in July 2021 of cancer at 93 years old and following the loss Sonia was inspired to write this book to honor her mother’s legacy. It should come as no surprise that the first and only Supreme Court Justice of Latin American descent in history, and only the third woman in history to become a Supreme Court Justice pens a book about the importance of daily civic duties.
“I have eternal optimism, and I think that’s a product of how vibrant a person my own mother was,” Sonia recently told PEOPLE of her mom. Just Help! How to Build a Better World features Sonia as a child, and depicts her mother asking her, “How did you help today?” each night before bed.
Sonia recalled moving into her mother’s home in the summer of 2021 to help her through her last days, and explained how that experience and the desire to honor her mother’s memory inspired her to write the book.
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