Duncan Tonatiuh is a Mexican-American author, who has written many children books such as Dear Primo, Separate Is Never Equal, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote and Diego Rivera. His work is mostly influenced by Pre-Columbian art, specifically that of Mixtec codex. He is inspired by the culture and artwork of Mixtec and other Mexican cultures. In his work, he talks about complex topics such as social justice, history of Latinos and Americans, art and immigration. He was born in Mexico and was raised in San Miguel De Allende. Later, he moved to New York as a teenager. He graduated high school from the state of Massachusetts and got his bachelors from Manhattan, New York. In the lecture, Duncan Tonatiuh talked about his most prominent work and shared