This year, Chocolate Storytime visited Jackson STEM Dual Language Academy.  Parent volunteer Natasha Bowswer worked with Chocolate Storytime coordinator, Ayesha Randall to bring volunteers from the community to read to the students in a series of sessions.  Among the storytime readers were Tyron Hampton, Pasadena City Councilmember; Julianne Reynoso, Pasadena Unified School District Executive Director, Elementary Schools; Harlan Redmond, executive director of Harambee Ministries; Pat Smith, La Pintoresca Branch Library Manager; Rosa Cesareti, Librarian; Felita Kealing, Pasadena Unified School District African American Parent Council past president; Lydia Breen, Community Garden Manager and Director of Trailer Trash Art & Science Project; Stella Pulliam, San Rafael African American Parent Council member; Joan Reid, Martin Luther King Community Coalition Member and Retired Librarian of 36 years; and LaBarbara Madison, Aspires West Pasadena volunteer.