Uma Menon is an 19-year-old student and author from Winter Park, Florida who currently attends Princeton University.

Author
- Children’s Books: My Mother’s Tongues (Candlewick, 2023) and Our Mothers’ Names (Candlewick, 2024)
- Poetry Book: Hands for Language, published by Mawenzi House in 2020 and shortlisted by the 2019 Erbacce-Prize
- Three-Time Pushcart Prize Nominee in Poetry
- 2020-2021 National YoungArts Winner in Writing
- Featured in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Progressive, Orlando Sentinel, The Rumpus, and over three dozen other print and online publications
Advocate
- Congressional Guest to the 2019 State of the Union
- 2020 US Senate Youth Program Florida Delegate
- 100 Most Influential Women of Malayali Origin
- 2020-2021 Encore Public Voices Fellow
- 2019-2020 International Human Rights Art Festival Youth Fellow
- Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) Action Fellow
Student
- International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Recipient
- Florida League of IB Schools (FLIBS) Merit Scholar
- Burger King Scholar
- National Speech & Debate Academic All-American Award