About

With a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism & Digital Media, and a plethora of blog posts as a writer for BabyCenter’s Spanglish Mamis channel, Larena Baldazo’s passion has always been for storytelling. Over the years, her creativity led her down a path of marketing, creating content for social media, and web producing for brands and big names such as the San Francisco Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and then on to public service.

Behind the stories, the photography, and the Instagram lives, Larena’s first job is being a mom.
She and her husband live in Pittsburg, California, and if you look at the illustrations in this book
closely, you may see some familiar spots if you know the area well enough. Just after Larena’s daughter turned 3 years old, she was diagnosed with 100% hearing loss in her right ear and a learning disability. With little information, so many questions and a lack of guidance, Larena quickly learned that she needed to be her daughter’s advocate to get her the support services she needed. Whether that was in the doctor’s office or at school. We Are Twins is inspired by her daughter, not only because of her journey, but because this was something she would often say when she felt a connection with someone or shared the same interest.

 

Once again, Larena’s daughter had introduced her to a new way of thinking… that it is our differences that make us special, and our similarities are what spark long-lasting friendships.