Freedom to Read Advocacy Institute for High Schoolers Accepting Applications

In a fantastic collaboration betwixt 2 top-notch institutions moving against censorship and publication bans, precocious schoolhouse students crossed the state are invited to use to and instrumentality portion successful the Freedom to Read Advocacy Institute. Brooklyn Public Library–named Librarians of the Year from Library Journal for their Books Unbanned program–and PEN America–a person successful tracking and elucidating the existent scenery of publication bans–have teamed up to connection a 4 week, online grooming to assistance existent precocious schoolers larn however to propulsion backmost against the publication bans impacting their schools, libraries, and communities.

This free program volition see interactive workshops, the accidental to make idiosyncratic advocacy plans, and the accidental to conscionable some authors and different pupil activists dedicated to the origin of intelligence freedom. Among the guests are writer Ashley Hope Pérez, creator of Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani, Florida Freedom to Read Project cofounder Jen Cousins, and pupil activists similar Christina Ellis, Edha Gupta, and Jack Petocz.

Students who be and enactment successful each 4 meetings volition gain a certificate and articulation a cohort of “Freedom to Read Ambassadors.” Such favoritism volition let students to be and prosecute successful aboriginal workshops and advocacy opportunities.

More importantly, students who be volition beryllium acceptable to beryllium leaders successful the question stripping them of their rights to read.

High schoolhouse students tin use for the programme here. The meetings volition beryllium held each Thursday evening successful February from 5-6:45 p.m. Eastern Time. More accusation astir the programme is available connected PEN America’s website.

Find much quality and stories of involvement from the publication satellite in Breaking successful Books.