Kah Yangni is an illustrator living in Philadelphia, PA. They make heartfelt art about justice, queerness, and joy. Kah’s artistic mission is to heal themself and others by making art that focuses on radical optimism, and the chance we have to make the world a better place. Kah uses text, vibrating color, screenprinting, drawing, Photoshop, and collage to bring these messages to life.

Their art has been shared by people like Indya Moore of the television show Pose, and they’ve worked with the New York Times, Vice Media, The Washington Post, and Chronicle Books, as well as with causes like the Transgender Law Center and the Movement for Black Lives. They’ve been covered by NBC News and them, and their poster work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Kah’s first picture book, “The Making of Butterflies” by Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, was released by Amistad Books/HarperCollins in March 2023. Kah is currently finishing a picture book called “Not He or She, I’m Me” by A.M. Wild, to be released by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan in fall 2023.