Deborah Caldwell-Stone, JD, is director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation. For two decades, she has worked closely with libraries, librarians, and trustees to address a wide range of intellectual freedom issues. She has served on the faculty of the ALA-sponsored Lawyers for Libraries and Law for Librarians workshops and speaks frequently to librarians and library organizations around the country about intellectual freedom and privacy. She is a contributor to the tenth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual.

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“You need social justice to do intellectual freedom and you need to value intellectual freedom to protect it and make sure you can accomplish social justice. We are seeing that today as we are grappling with a rising number of challenges to books held, by school libraries in particular, where the focus has been on removing books dealing with LGBTQIA themes or books dealing with the lives of black and indigenous persons and persons of color.”

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