Deborah Caldwell-Stone (she/her/hers)

Director
Office for Intellectual Freedom

Deborah Caldwell-Stone is the Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation. She is a former appellate litigator who works closely with librarians, trustees, and educators on a wide range of intellectual freedom issues. She advises ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and its Privacy Subcommittee on law and policy concerns and has served on the faculty of the ALA-sponsored Lawyers for Libraries and Law for Librarians workshops. She is a contributor to the 10th edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual (ALA Editions) and a contributor the third edition of Information Services Today (Rowman & Littlefield).

Presentation(s):

• Book Bans, Libraries, and the Law: Standing Up to Library Censorship in Louisiana and Beyond

  Saturday, January 28, 2023
  5:30 PM – 6:30 PM