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** New Program Launch!
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Power to the Readers is a free, online, eight-session summer training institute for high school and college students ready to take a stand for free speech, intellectual freedom, and the right to read.
Through a dynamic mix of presentations, workshops, and peer collaboration, participants will explore the First Amendment, sharpen their advocacy skills, and develop the tools needed to combat censorship and push for change in their schools, libraries, and communities.
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** In this program you will…
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Learn essential advocacy and organizing tactics
Engage with complex free speech issues in today’s cultural and political climate
Meet and collaborate with successful youth organizers and author allies
Gain public speaking, debate, and community
dialogue skills
Earn a Certificate of Professional Achievement in
Free Speech Advocacy
** Application Deadline: June 16
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** Program Schedule
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Time
1-4pm ET
Dates
Mondays - Thursdays
July 24-August 7
Location
Online
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** Who You’ll Learn From
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Emily Knox
Interim Dean & Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Emma Karin Eriksson
Manager of Youth Civic Engagement & Expression, Brooklyn Public Library
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Emerson Sykes
Senior Staff Attorney
ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
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Betsy Gomez
Program Officer,
American Library Association
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