Protecting Children and Empowering Parents: A Rebuttal to the 'Censorship' Narrative

Protecting Children and Empowering Parents: A Rebuttal to the “Censorship” Narrative

by Mary Library

Mary in the Library Michigan

21 December 2025

The recent alarm sounded by the American Library Association (ALA), PEN America, and their coalition partners paints a picture of a dystopian landscape where books are being snatched from the hands of eager young readers. However, this narrative relies on a fundamental redefinition of terms and a refusal to acknowledge the core concern of American families: the safeguarding of children from s[*]xually explicit material and age-inappropriate ideologies in taxpayer-funded institutions.

What these organizations label a “censorship crisis” is, in reality, a crisis of accountability. For decades, public education and library systems have operated with little oversight, introducing materials regarding gender ideology and s[*]xual practices that many communities find deeply objectionable for minors. Now that parents are exercising their democratic right to oversee their children’s education, these institutions are crying foul.

Here is a look at the reality behind the trends cited in their report:

Reframing “Bans”: Curation is Not Censorship

The central fallacy in the ALA and PEN America report is the misuse of the word “ban.” In a free society, a ban implies that the government has prohibited the publication, sale, or possession of a book. That is not happening in the United States. Every book currently challenged in a school library remains available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and often in the public library down the street.

When a school board decides that a graphic novel depicting oral s[*]x is not appropriate for a middle school library, that is not a ban; it is curation. Libraries have always practiced curation. They have finite shelf space and budgets. For years, progressive librarians have “curated” out books they deemed “outdated” or “culturally insensitive.” Yet, when parents demand the removal of books containing graphic s[*]xual content, it is suddenly labeled an attack on democracy. This double standard exposes that the issue is not about the freedom to read, but about what is being prioritized for children.

The “Soft Censorship” and “Weeding” Myth

The report claims that “weeding” is being maliciously misused by parents. However, weeding is a standard tool for maintaining a healthy collection. The report complains about the removal of books with “diverse representation or s[*]x-related content,” but fails to mention that these are often the very books containing the explicit material parents are objecting to.

If a book is found to contain p[*]rnography or radical political indoctrination disguised as education, it should be weeded. The complaint that “preemptive bans” are problematic ignores the concept of fiscal responsibility. Why should a school district waste taxpayer money purchasing titles that violate state laws regarding obscenity or age-appropriateness, only to have to remove them later? “Do not buy” lists are a sensible administrative tool to ensure collections remain compliant with community standards and the law.

Accountability Laws: Protecting Students, Not Banning Books

The report criticizes laws in Texas (SB 13), Florida, and Utah as “censorship-driven.” In reality, these are transparency and accountability laws.

• Transparency: Laws requiring book lists to be posted for 30 days allow parents—the primary stakeholders in a child’s education—to see what is entering the school.

• Compliance: The use of AI to scan collections is a logical response to the sheer volume of material. If a district has thousands of books, and state law prohibits s[*]xually explicit content, using technology to flag potential violations is an efficiency measure, not a nefarious plot.

The “chilling effect” described by the ALA is actually the feeling of accountability returning to a profession that has long operated without it. If librarians fear penalties for distributing “harmful materials to minors,” the solution is simple: do not distribute harmful materials to minors.

The Role of Federal and State Leadership

The report attacks the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders regarding “gender ideology” and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). This criticism ignores the mandate given by voters. The 2024 and 2025 elections showed a clear rejection of the progressive cultural agenda in schools.

Schools are funded to teach reading, writing, math, and civics—not to serve as laboratories for social engineering. Executive orders and state laws that restrict the promotion of Critical Race Theory or gender fluidity are not “anti-educational”; they are a restoration of neutrality. They ensure that public institutions do not undermine the values of the families they serve.

“Parents’ Rights” is Not a Rhetorical Guise

Perhaps the most dismissive aspect of the joint statement is the framing of “parents’ rights “as mere rhetoric used to advance censorship. The right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and moral development of their children is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Supreme Court.

When the Florida Freedom to Read Project or the ALA claims that “most parents” oppose these removals, they often rely on broad polls that ask generic questions like, “Do you oppose book banning?” When parents are shown the actual excerpts from the books in question—passages detailing incest, pedophilia, and graphic s[*]xual acts—support for removing these books from school’s skyrockets.

Conclusion

The “censorship crisis” of 2025 is a manufactured panic designed to protect the gatekeepers of culture from the people they serve. The trends identified—state oversight, parental involvement, and the removal of inappropriate materials—are not attacks on democracy. They are democracy in action.

Local school boards are elected. Legislatures are elected. When these bodies act to remove p[*]rnographic or ideologically driven content from K-12 schools, they are fulfilling the will of the voters. The freedom to read is safe in America; what is ending is the era where public institutions could bypass the values of the American family without consequence.

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• "Protecting Children and Empowering Parents: A Rebuttal to the 'Censorship' Narrative," by Mary Library, Mary in the Library Michigan (Substack), 21 December 2025, hyperlinks and emphasis in original.
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FOIA OPRA Request for Comegno Legal Bills and the Daughter Who Reads Almost Every Day

I've had to submit to the North Hunterdon-Voorhees school a FOIA request that in New Jersey is called OPRA.  It's my opinion the taxpayers are getting ripped off by the Comegno Law Group that is billing the school/taxpayers for work it really is did/volunteered for Chicago's American Library Association.  The OPRA is to determine if this is the case.  

Further, an ethics decision may have been biased in an unethical way, indicated to me by the following sentence: "My daughter reads almost every day."  

Here is a Table of Contents/Evidence to support the OPRA request and more, and all evidence is included below:

Table of Contents/Evidence:

• NJ SEC Scheduling Letter
• Public Comments at the 8/19/2025 School Ethics Committee Meeting
• OPRA Request 007: Comegno Legal Bills
• Recording of Public Portion of NJ SEC Meeting 8/19/25
• Graphics of NJ SEC Scheduling Letter 8/12/25
• Public Disclosure by Me of the Above Matter on Liberty Launch Group

Below is that OPRA request, but first is some information I reference in the OPRA request, namely, the scheduling letter from the NJ School Ethics Commission.  

There is also a transcript of the public comments made at that meeting.  I made the recording and the transcript.  The entire recording is linked below.  To my knowledge, the NJSEC itself makes no such records public, so below is likely the only copy.  You will be told by the people who support American Library Association to ignore me and especially the evidence, the recording.  Will you not read the transcript for yourselves?  Will you not listen?

At the hearing a public statement was read out loud about the imminent public comment portion of the meeting.  That statement included the following admonition:

Parties to a matter currently pending before the Commission are reminded not to publicly litigate the merits of their case.  The Commission's review in the matter will be limited to the written [unintelligible] and any public comments or statements which address the merits of the matter will not be considered by the Commission today.

In the transcript a Commissioner speaks during a break between public comments that, "My daughter reads almost every day."  Cute, right?  Not cute.  It is an indication, at least to me, that he heard what the Comegno attorney argued, then, despite the unethical nature of her comments and her refusal to follow direct verbal direction from the Commission chairman and again from the Commission attorney, he was swayed by her unethical comments.  Why?  Because his takeaway was the importance of libraries and how his daughter enjoys reading almost every day.  I could hear nothing from him about how the Comegno attorney just blew through ethical requirements without a care in the world.  To me, this was the most disheartening part of the hearing and it told me this guy is going to fall for the America / democracy / libraries sob story and decide not to hold the school board responsible for breaking the law.

And should anyone argue the Comegno lawyer's words were simply effective in making a point since the Commissioner was swayed to think of his daughter and her reading thanks to libraries, you don't get or give credit when an attorney achieves a goal in an unethical manner.

I've said this is my opinion, but it's also my opinion anyone looking at the scheduling letter, its red, italicized, and underlined admonition, the public comments and NJSEC's Chairperson's opening statement and NJSEC lawyer's verbal admonition, will come to essentially the same conclusion that Comegno Law Group is draining board/taxpayer money to fund instead volunteer work for the American Library Association that has control over the school board (as my ethics complaint may decide), the legislature that passed the Freedom to Read Act written by ALA (Senator Andrew Zwicker who called me a "meddling minority" told me so directly at a hearing in Trenton), and is now attempting to use taxpayer funds to illegally sway the NJ School Ethics Commission in violation of the New Jersey Rules of Professional Ethics [potentially RPC 3.3(a)(4 & 5); 3.4(c); 3.5(a & c); 8.4(a & c & d)].

Remember, the Comegno Law Group attorney is

1. experienced in education law practice,
2. got the 8/12/25 letter not to talk about the case,
3. heard the opening comments that parties may not talk about the case, discussed the case anyway,
4. heard the Commission attorney tell her directly to stop talking about the case, but went right on ahead talking anyway to do what she knows not to do and to three times ignore the School Ethics Commission.

Three strikes you're out, yes?  Or no, because librarians are wonderful people who would never hurt anyone, American Library Association is wonderful, its Freedom to Read Act is about liberty and democracy, so the ethics case is moot, nothing to see here, let's move on.

She concluded by directly arguing the merits of the case despite multiple warnings, and even got in the good word for American Library Association's Freedom to Read Act as the reason to defy my ethics complaint by summarizing, "the record shows the members acted in good faith, within policy, and in line with the state law protecting access to books."  They did not act in good faith.  They violated ethics laws, and their attorney violated professional ethics laws, all to keep children exposed to inappropriate material in schools, in my opinion.  

Besides, that Freedom to Read Act was signed into law on December 9, 2024.  The alleged unethical actions taken by the board predated that and the ethics complaint itself was filed on November 4, 2024.  Even the respondents themselves complained in their response, "this matter was initially and incorrectly filed on October 23, 2024."  Gosh forbid a pro se complainant should misfile a complaint without the petty attorney trying to score points because screw justice.  Always the effort to belittle, to attack the messenger, but still, Comegno Law Group knows my ethics complaint predated the passage of the Freedom to Read Act, so summarizing by saying, "the record shows the members acted ... in line with the state law protecting access to books," is not only arguing the merits of the case, but it is deceptively dishonest to argue something that postdated the complaint.  It is factually false.  It might even right there represent an additional violation of yet another professional rule of attorney ethics.  "RPC 8.4. Misconduct; It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:... (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation."  And all after having been warned three times not to discuss the merits of the case, in a matter that may represent another violation of the ethics code.  Had she not violated at least one rule, another rule would not have been violated.  My opinion, of course.

I am publishing all this so the taxpayers and especially the parents at the school can see for themselves exactly what happened at the 8/19/25 NJSEC meeting and how they are being used/sponged off of to promote a Chicago ALA agenda—all to keep school kids subject to ALA's 60 year effort to indoctrinate school children (shown here).  They can also see that local control needs to be restored from ALA's overarching control, such control being so complete that a law firm willingly defied rules of professional conduct, starting with their own school board.  The ALA policy embedded in school policy needs to be removed and books that are pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable per Pico standards need to be summarily removed, Freedom to Read Act notwithstanding.  The US Supreme Court trumps the Chicago American Library Association.

That initial ethics decision will be out in a few weeks.  Let's hope soon afterwards some school board members become ex school board members.

And get rid of that unethical law firm.  What's the problem?  Plenty of ethical lawyers can take their place, do far better, and not rip you off.  My opinion!

NJ SEC Scheduling Letter (red, italic, underlined lettering in original):

12 AUGUST 2025

SCHOOL ETHICS COMMISSION

August 12, 2025

For Complainant

Dan Kleinman

641 Shunpike Rd #123

Chatham, NJ 07928

For Respondents

John B. Comegno II, Esquire

Giulia Lima, Esq.

Comegno Law Group

521 Pleasant Valley Avenue

Moorestown, NJ 08057

SUBJECT: DAN KLEINMAN v. JESSICA VIOTTO, BETH KOTRAN, TARA

MARIE HINTZ, BRYAN CHAPMAN, DANIEL SPANTON, GLEN

FARBANISH, JOHN MELICK, BRENDAN MCISAAC, NORTH

HUNTERDON-VORHEES BOARD OF EDUCATION, HUNTERDON

COUNTY, SCHOOL ETHICS COMMISSION DOCKET #C89-24

Dear Parties:

Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be discussed by the School Ethics

Commission (Commission) at its meeting on August 19, 2025. At this meeting, the Commission

will discuss whether probable cause exists for the allegations in the Complaint. Probable cause

shall be found when the facts and circumstances presented in the Complaint and Written

Statement would lead a reasonable person to believe that the School Ethics Act has been violated.

In addition, because Respondents alleged that the complaint is frivolous, the Commission

will also discuss this allegation, and any response thereto. If the Commission determines that the

Complaint is frivolous, such a finding may constitute sole grounds for dismissal, and such

dismissal shall constitute final agency action. N.J.A.C. 6A:28-9.4. In addition, pursuant to N.J.S.A.

18A:12-29(e), the Commission may impose a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).

The Commission’s meeting will take place at the New Jersey Department of Education,

100 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, New Jersey 08625. Although you are permitted to attend public

session, please note that this is not an opportunity to discuss or to otherwise publicly litigate the

merits of the case. Further, the Commission’s review and discussion of this matter will take place

in Executive Session.

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Following its meeting on August 19, 2025, it is anticipated that the Commission will adopt

a decision at its next regularly scheduled monthly meeting thereafter. Once adopted by the

Commission, the parties shall be duly notified of the Commission’s decision (in writing) and will

be advised as to how the above-captioned matter will be processed.

Subject to the exceptions set forth at N.J.A.C. 6A:28-6.6(g), the Commission shall hold all

information confidential regarding any pending matter until the Commission finds that a school

official has violated the Act, or until such time that the above-captioned matter is settled,

withdrawn or dismissed.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at school.ethics@doe.nj.gov.

Sincerely,

/s/

Dana Jones

School Ethics Commission 

Public Comments at the 8/19/2025 School Ethics Committee Meeting:

Giulia Lima, Esq., Comengo Law Group for Respondents:

Good morning members of the Commission. I am Giulia Lima, Counsel for Respondents, the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education members named in the matter C89-24. This matter involves a May 7, 2024, vote by the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education on a library book challenge. This challenge was handled under established district policy. A review committee of educators, administrators, and a parent, considered the book and issued a divided recommendation. 

At the public meeting, more than twenty residents spoke with most supporting the book remaining. The board then voted not to remove it. That decision was made through the proper process and within the board's authority. 

The process was consistent not only with the district policy, but also with the principles later codified in the New Jersey Freedom to Read Act, which affirms students' right to access information and prohibits book bans based on disagreement with ideas. 

Dana Jones, School Ethics Commission Staff Member and Attorney:

Wait, Miss Lima, I just want to remind you, you can't talk about the merits of the case. 

Giulia Lima:

Okay.

Dana Jones:

So we talk and then the Commission decides whatever they decide. They're only going to consider what was in the complaint and the writ. 

Giulia Lima:

Yes.

Dana Jones:

So not, nothing of what you're talking about today. We do want to make sure that you don't talk about anything that we consider merits, defenses to the case. 

Giulia Lima:

Okay. 

School libraries have centers for voluntary inquiry, play a unique role in promoting intellectual freedom, providing equitable access to learning, resources, and promoting democracy by providing services to all, regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, age, ability, gender, or social economic status. 

In sum, the record shows the members acted in good faith, within policy, and in line with the state law protecting access to books. 

Thank you for your time and your commitment to our schools, our teachers, and our students. 

...

Male Commissioner:

My daughter reads almost every day.

...

Jeannine Pizzigoni, School Ethics Commission Staff Member:

Can you state your name, please, and what case you are here for?

Dan Kleinman, Complainant:

Yes, my name is Dan Kleinman. I'm here for the case of the young lady over here that ...

[Discussion ensues within the SEC about Commissioner Richard Tomko having to go offline again like he did for Giulia Lima for conflict related to North Hunterdon-Voorhees BOE as he was applying for a contract with the BOE.  He has recused himself from the C89-24 process.  He will have the same access to the final decision after it is posted on the Commission’s website when the public will have access to that decision.]

I came here because I'm interested in the administration of justice. I'm fascinated by this School Ethics Commission. I wanted to just observe for myself what was going on in this case. I wasn't planning to say anything.

Jeannine Pizzigoni:

Okay.

Dan Kleinman:

And then the attorney spoke up. [Laughter ensues.] She's a very nice lady. 

But she did speak up on the, on the, uh, related to the case and and how you should basically be voting because she pointed out to how important libraries are and it's essential to our democracy that we have libraries. 

Then she was told, "We're sorry, you can't talk about things related to this case." And then she proceeded to proceed with more things related to this case. It's an attempt to spin the Ethics Commission. 

I'm not impressed with that. I just came to observe today. And what I observed was the continuing effort to claim that librarians are wonderful people and all books are wonderful, as the reason why this case should be, in your mind, just set aside. 

It's not the issue whether all libraries are wonderful, and I'm not gonna argue the merits of the case. I'm not impressed that she would, came up here and talked about this in violation of your rules, was warned about it, and then proceeded to continue to talk about this case in violation of the rules. 

It's not impressive. I hope when you make your decision that your decision is based on everything it's supposed to be based on, and the justice of the matter, and whether the law was violated, and that's it. 

And this is a very fascinating process. And I thank you guys for the efforts that you all put into doing this every month, it's a very important issue. 

Thank you.

Robert Bender, School Ethics Commission Chairperson:

I can tell you that, uh, as a commissioner, uh we've read, this material, it's not just a statement here or there, but we look into the depth of each case. And uh, uh, are we swayed? Uh, no, uh, we listen, uh, just as, as, you know, free speech, but at the same time, what we're dealing with is very serious. And, right now, we, we have read this, uh, we are certainly in detail in this, uh, and, uh, we'll give that great consideration. So, we don't take these things lightly. 

Dan Kleinman:

Okay.  This, her argument that the Freedom to Read Act passed in New Jersey, you know, that was written by Chicago's American Library Association. It's almost proof of what I've been saying. But thank you very much.

OPRA Request 007: Comegno Legal Bills:

Please provide all legal bills and accompanying documentation of what was done and when from any law firm including the Comegno Law Group, P.C., wherein the bills relate to preparation for and appearance at the August 19, 2025 New Jersey School Ethics Commission.  Consider this an open request until I am provided with documentation, just in case any bill has not yet been received.  Requesting this OPRA request to remain open will obviate the need for additional OPRA/FOIA requests, thereby saving time and money for all.  Once all such documents are provided to me, this request may be considered closed.  I am aware some law firms write legal bills in a manner that essentially circumvents OPRA laws.  Let's hope such games will not be played here or that will result in additional OPRA requests and associated costs that you will have brought upon yourselves.

My interest in the subject matter contained concerns saving the school district legal fees for work Comegno Law Group may have performed gratis for Chicago's American Library Association.  Essentially, Comegno Law Group, while ostensibly representing the school district, in reality performed work that may have violated New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct so as to benefit a special interest group, namely, American Library Association, the very same special interest group that is at the basis of the ethics complaint about the potential for the school board having broken ethics laws by favoring special interest groups in a manner against the law, among other things.  Comegno Law Group may have unethically promoted the interests of the special interest group while completely ignoring the interests of its client school board; any interests of the school board that were not also interests of the special interest group were not discussed at all before the NJ School Ethics Committee.  For example, the issue of board members having promised to vote a certain way on a certain issue in exchange for votes was not discussed.  Comegno Law Group was told repeatedly, including in person at the 8/19/25 meeting by the attorney for the Commission who had to interrupt the Comegno Law Group member, not to speak on topics relating to the case, but that didn't stop Comegno Law Group from charging ahead anyway with its open advocacy for special interest group American Library Association and for New Jersey's Freedom to Read Act that was written by American Library Association and passed as law in New Jersey.  The argument was essentially that since that law passed, the ethics matter under review was irrelevant, so no ethics were violated.  Ethics violated but not discuss by the attorney were essentially ignored.  Comegno Law Group may have violated rules of professional conduct to support American Library Association, but it never supported its school board client in the other ethics issues in the ethics complaint, and it certainly does not benefit the client to act unprofessionally to support the very outside interest group the school board may have also unethically supported, namely, American Library Association, the very basis of the ethics complaint.  So basically, Comegno Law Group volunteered work for American Library Association but charged the school board for that work.  This OPRA/FOIA request is to determine the existence and extent of the damage, if any, so it may be returned to the taxpayers.  I was at the hearing to see all this.  I have produced a transcript and the notice of hearing from the Commission to prove all this.  No member of the school board was in attendance, so only I saw this.  The meetings are not officially recorded.  I recorded the meeting on my iPhone and I produced an accurate transcript as a result.  So there's zero change Comegno Law Group can say it didn't happen or can keep people from hearing it for themselves.  All work billed to the school board related to the above should not have been billed to you.  The school board should refuse to pay any portion of any bill related to this matter.  Further, it should send a demand for payment of legal fees to American Library Association that directly benefitted from Comegno Law Group's unethical actions.  Finally, to avoid these litigious people supporting American Library Association's ability to harm school children with inappropriate material suing me, the above is all my opinion.

Recording of Public Portion of NJ SEC Meeting 8/19/25:

My recording of entire public part of New Jersey School Ethics Commission open public meeting of August 19, 2025.

It includes public comment by Comegno Law Group followed by my own comment about the ethics complaint I filed against North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education. pic.twitter.com/wiEG1pQ1ed

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Graphics of NJ SEC Scheduling Letter 8/12/25:

Here is the letter sent out to announce the hearing I recorded above. pic.twitter.com/YCsStU3nD2

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Public Disclosure by Me of the Above Matter on Liberty Launch Group:

Spotify:

• "E.5 with Dan Kleinman," by Austin Monteiro, Liberty Launch X Podcast, 30 August 2025; https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vLocpBP7Ioc0pZ1WDPEnb

X:

C lip 1. In this conversation, Austin Monteiro speaks with Dan Kleinman from @SexHarassed about the alarming trends in school libraries and the influence of the American Library Association (ALA) on children's literature. Kleinman shares his experiences advocating for parental… pic.twitter.com/kAeCaGI5Tk

— Liberty Launch Group (@LibertyLaunchX) August 30, 2025

NOTE ADDED 15 SEPTEMBER 2025:

The OPRA request was effectively denied and closed on 12 September 2025.  From experience, 100% of the time a FOIA request is denied, the government is hiding something.  

In my case, they are hiding legal bills.  In the past I received legal bills.  Not this time.  They are definitely hiding something.  I suspect it's that the law firm is serving American Library Association, not the school district itself.

They say they don't have the legal bills because they are "sent directly to the District's insurance carrier."  If that is true, then they have not reviewed the bills and they are possibly violating even more ethics laws.  They might even be hiding that they know tax money is being used to support Chicago ALA goals.

I'll have to dig in more now, and they will eventually blame me for wasting the public's money.  It's like they blame book challengers for wasting public money when it's ALA diktat that creates the book challenges in the first place.

Here is the actual rejection letter, and click to enlarge:

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Dan Kleinman Is Intolerable, Not School Librarians Harming School Children; Guy Citron's Triple Decker Defamation

Dan Kleinman is intolerable, not school librarians harming school children, according to "guest commentator" Guy Citron at the Hunterdon Review, Whippany, NJ, pictured top right, photo credit Hunterdon Review:

• "COMMENTARY: Outside Influencer at Local School Board Exposed Should Not Be Tolerated," by Guest Commentator Guy Citron, Hunterdon Review, 7 March 2025, updated 11 March 2025.

By way of fair use, I will reprint the article then comment on it, to see if the claim of my being intolerable is projection.

As we shall see, Guy Citron himself is the intolerable one, making multiple defamatory claims about me, then he commits a significant deception to include what appears to be the defamatory statements of former North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School school librarian Martha Hickson.  I have also caught him in the act of colluding with Michael Gottesman to commit defamation per se.  

So school librarians harming children aren't the problem, I am, to Guy Citron.  He decides to personally defame me, piling on Martha Hickson defaming me and making a deceptive edit to do it, then further piling on Michael Gottesman defaming me.  

It's like a triple decker defamation by Citron et alia.  A trifecta of transgressors, shown below.  "Guest propagandist" would have been more accurate than "guest commentator."  Perhaps "guest gaslighter."

With so much heat, I might be over the target.  Ya think?

COMMENTARY: Outside Influencer at Local School Board Exposed Should Not Be Tolerated

In 2025, it seems that [SO FAR SO GOOD, FALLS OFF A CLIFF HEREAFTER] far right-wing extremism [STARTS RIGHT OFF WITH POLITICAL NAME CALLING] may dominate business at the North Hunterdon – Voorhees Regional High School Board of Education [USES THAT POLITICAL NAME CALLING AGAINST AN ENTIRE BOARD OF EDUCATION].

To win their seats, instead of representing the community’s needs [FALSE], a majority of the members who have been serveing [sic] as of January 2025 spread hate [FALSE] about books, librarians, and school libraries. They were helped by radical [FALSE] politicians and outside influencers [FALSE, PUBLIC MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ALL] like Dan Kleinman, an intruder [FALSE] who is wholly unserious about improving public education [NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME. I ADDRESS HARM IN LIBRARIES AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IN CHICAGO CAUSES TO LIBRARY PATRONS AND EMPLOYEES INCLUDING LIBRARIANS NATIONWIDE].

In what appears to be a grudge with the American Library Association [FALSE, I INVESTIGATE AND REPORT ON ALA, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A GRUDGE, AS LONG AS THEY KEEP HARMING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, I'LL KEEP REPORTING], Kleinman has spent decades [TRUE? TWENTY FIVE YEARS] crusading [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM, NOT CRUSADING] against your family’s right to read books [FALSE, READ WHATEVER YOU LIKE]. To fake credibility [FALSE, I HAVE 25 YEARS OF CREDIBILITY, INCLUDING THE AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT CALLING ME AN EXPERT ON ALA DECEPTION], he created the World Library Association and Safe Libraries, neither entity having credentials or [sic] authority in librarianship [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST ON ALA AT SAFELIBRARIES, WORLD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION JUST STARTED SO IT WILL GROW, AND I HAVE BEEN A VOLUNTEER LIBRARIAN FOR TWO YEARS].

Furthermore, rather than tackling real challenges at school [FALSE, A SCHOOL LIBRARIAN POTENTIALLY VIOLATING NJ OBSCENITY LAW 2C:34-3, ETC., IS A REAL CHALLENGE AT SCHOOL, SO MUCH SO THE SCHOOL SPENT YEARS CONSIDERING THE ISSUE] – like smartphones – Kleinman preaches [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] ad nauseam [FALSE, IS A JOURNALIST SUPPOSED TO DO A SINGLE STORY THEN MOVE ON? HOW OFTEN DID WE HEAR RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA?  AD NAUSEAM, BUT THAT'S OKAY TO GUY SKEWERING ME FOR PERSISTENCE] that the sky is falling because of librarians and library books [FALSE, REAL CHILDREN ARE REALLY BEING HARMED BY SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, LIKE MAIA POET]. Worst of all, the librarians Kleinman targets [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST, THEY ARE SUBJECTS OF MY JOURNALISM, NOT TARGETS] endure harassment [FALSE, BUT I'M BEING SUED TO SILENCE ME ON THIS VERY POINT, AND TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, I SHOULD NOT COMMENT FURTHER, WHICH OF COURSE GUY CITRON AND OTHERS WILL USE AGAINST ME], false accusations [FALSE, ALMOST ALL OF MY REPORTING INCLUDES PRIMARY SOURCES UPON WHICH I REPORT, OFTEN I TURN THOSE SOURCES INTO TRANSCRIPTS TO PROVIDE COMPLETE CONTEXT], and invasions of privacy [FALSE, AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE TO WHAT HE IS REFERRING, EXCEPT PERHAPS SOMETHING IN THAT CASE I SHOULD NOT DISCUSS] to the point of harm [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST].

Now, Kleinman has been exposed as a national bully [FALSE, IN AMERICA PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY]. In November, one of his most famous victims [FALSE, BUT I SHOULD NOT SAY MORE], Amanda Jones, Louisiana school librarian and author of the best-selling [FALSE, BUT LIKELY TRUE AMONG AN AUDIENCE OF LIBRARIANS] book “That Librarian,” filed a suit [FALSE, SHE FILED TWO SUITS, ONE IN NEW JERSEY THEN AN IDENTICAL ONE IN LOUISIANA, BOTH LINKED AT THE BOTTOM OF MY GIVE SEND GO PAGE HE PROVIDES BELOW BUT LATER STEALTH EDITS OUT] against him for defamation and false light.

Jones served Kleinman, via proxy [FALSE, VIA THE HUSBAND OF FORMER SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AT THAT SCHOOL, AND THE "SERVICE" WAS AN ENVELOPE INTENTIONALLY MADE HARD TO OPEN BY MARTHA HICKSON SO I WOULD SUPPOSEDLY SUFFER MORE WHILE OPENING IT—THAT's RETALIATION, NOT SERVICE], at the school board’s Tuesday, Nov. 26. meeting.

There, he sat with local allies [AS WE ALL DO, EVEN GUY CITRON SAT WITH HIS LOCAL ALLIES AND INDEED VIDEO TAPED ME WHEN MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDED ME A MANILA ENVELOPE, A VIDEO THAT WAS SHARED BY MARTHA HICKSON WITH MANY A GLOATING SCHOOL LIBRARIAN AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WHO COMMENTED ON MY PHYSICAL APPEARANCE], including failed board candidate [FALSE.  IT'S GOOD THAT PEOPLE RUN FOR PUBLIC BOARDS.  SOME LOSE.  THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM FAILED, IT JUST ADDS TO THE PROJECTION BY GUY AGAINST ME] Eric Licwinko, Steven Piontek, a Union Township resident known for shouting curses at meetings [FALSE, HE'S KNOWN FOR CARING TO SHOW UP AT BOARD MEETINGS OUT OF CONCERN FOR HIS CHILDREN, A SUPER POSITIVE TRAIT, AND SOMETIMES THINGS GET HEATED, BUT GUY CITRON CAN'T STOP PUTTING HIS POLITICAL CART BEFORE THE HORSE], and newly elected board member Richard Lordi [FALSE, BOARD MEMBERS ARE NOT MY ALLIES, THEY ARE IMPARTIAL, AND TO THE EXTENT THEY AREN'T, ETHICS CHARGES COULD BE FILED AGAINST THEM, SOMETHING I HAVE DONE BECAUSE GUY CITRON'S ALLIES ON THE BOARD REALLY ARE LITERALLY PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE, HENCE THEY ARE ALLIES, TO NEVER REMOVING INAPPROPRIATE BOOKS FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY DESPITE THE OBSCENITY LAW, SO WHENEVER A BOARD DELIBERATES, THE ALLIES HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS IN VIOLATION OF LAW, BUT THAT CASE IS PENDING SO ONLY THE FUTURE KNOWS].

Jones had to find Kleinman at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees district [FALSE, IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE, BUT GUY CITRON'S FILMING OF MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDING ME A MANILA ENVELOPE SURE MADE FOR GREAT THEATRE FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS AND ALA LEADERS], his frequent haunt [FALSE, AND AGAIN GUY IS MOCKING SOMEONE ATTENDING OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS IN WHAT BY NOW GIVEN THE REPETITION IS AN INTIMIDATION TACTIC TO KEEP PARENTS HE OPPOSES OR WOULD OPPOSE OUT OF SUCH MEETINGS], because while he has claimed to reside [FALSE] in Chatham and Bee Cave, Texas, both of those addresses point to UPS Store-style mailboxes rather than actual dwellings.

Here are some examples of Kleinman’s behavior:

• Kleinman has posted abusive [FALSE] statements about recently retired North Hunterdon High School librarian Martha Hickson more than 150 times and counting since 2021 via X/Twitter at https://x.com/SexHarassed, Facebook, and his own blog [PERHAPS, BUT HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON HAS PERSISTENTLY BEEN IN THE NEWS FOR THAT LONG, AND HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON MAY HAVE VIOLATED OBSCENITY LAW NJ 2C:34-3]. Some of those posts include https://tinyurl.com/3x57rev2, https://tinyurl.com/hpz92ce9, https://tinyurl.com/58c5s557.

• In January, he stole into [FALSE, AND POTENTIALLY DEFAMATORY IN AND OF ITSELF TO ALLEGE TRESPASS] the North Hunterdon High School library after hours [FALSE, THE LIBRARY WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT THAT TIME AND WAS IN USE BY THE PUBLIC, TRUE MARTHA HICKSON PUTS BLACK PAPER OVER THE WINDOWS SO NO ONE CAN LOOK INSIDE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY WHEN SHE IS THERE, BUT MARTHA HICKSON WAS NOT THERE AT THE TIME TO KEEP THE DOORS CLOSED], to take photos of Hickson’s workspace for later online harassment [FALSE, AGAIN, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND IT IS NEWSWORTHY THAT THERE WAS A GIANT SIGN OF MARTHA HICKSON WINNING A LUCRATIVE AWARD FROM AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ETC., IF I RECALL THE SIGN WAS PLACED HIGHER THAN I'M TALL—REMEMBER LUCRATIVE BECAUSE LATER GUY WILL MAKE FALSE ACCUSATIONS ABOUT MY ALLEGEDLY BEING PAID TO ATTEND SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, AS IF I WOULD JEOPARDIZE MY 25 YEAR JOURNALISM CAREER TO GET PAID TO ATTEND A FEW BOARD MEETINGS]. He bragged [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM] about it and posted photos. The school also has security footage showing Kleinman walking around the library on the evening of Jan. 28, 2024 [I DID NOT KNOW AND I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE.  BUT IT IS CURIOUS THAT THE SCHOOL WOULD NOT MAKE VIDEO TAPES AVAILABLE TO A PARENT WHERE HE CLAIMED HE SAW MARTHA HICKSON TOOK A STUDENT OR STUDENTS INTO HER OFFICE AFTER HOURS.  ANYWAY, IT APPEARS I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO OPRA, INCLUDING HOW IN THE WORLD DID A PRIVATE CITIZEN LEARN THAT THE SCHOOL HAS TAPES OF ME IN THE LIBRARY]. The photo is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.

• At the June school board meeting, he sat alongside Piontek, who read a six-minute tantrum against Hickson almost certainly authored by Kleinman [FALSE, AND THE BOARD LET'S PEOPLE SPEAK FOR ONLY THREE MINUTES, AND OF COURSE GUY CITRON WOULD MISLABEL IT AS A TANTRUM, AGAIN COMPLAINING ABOUT A PARENT SPEAKING UP AT A BOARD MEETING, SOMETHING EVERYONE ELSE ENCOURAGES, GENERALLY SPEAKING].

• Kleinman has submitted to the board office multiple time-wasting [FALSE] OPRA (Open Public Records Act) requests to gain access to Hickson’s personal social media account, over which the district has no access or control [FALSE IN THAT PER A VIDEO OF MARTHA HICKSON SPEAKING FROM WITHIN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY SOLICITING WORK-RELATED MESSAGES VIA HER PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT, THOSE MESSAGES SHOULD BE UNDER CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL, AND A RECENT NEW JERSEY CASE JUST FOUND OPRA COMPRISES WORK-RELATED MESSAGES EVEN IF THEY ARE IN PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS].

• He has filed ethics charges against eight North Hunterdon-Voorhees board members simply because they followed policy in deciding to retain a book challenged by Licwinko [FALSE, AND THE FULL COMPLAINT CAN BE SEEN ONLINE BUT APPARENTLY GUY IS ONLY HERE TO SMEAR: "Ethics Complaint: North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education"].

Kleinman’s antics [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, JOURNALISTS FILE OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS ALL THE TIME, SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DO SO TOO AND SOMETIMES USE THEM TO DOX AND HARASS PARENTS SO MUCH SO THAT THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES NEED 24 HOUR POLICE PROTECTION, SO YET AGAIN IT'S ONE SIDED PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] come at a cost. In terms of personnel time and legal fees, the district is spending your tax dollars to respond to his delusions [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND THE PROBLEM IS THE POTENTIAL ILLEGALITY AND IMPROPRIETY, AND JOURNALISTS REPORT ON SUCH PROBLEMS].

Thankfully, Kleinman’s “work” [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, NO SCARE QUOTES NEEDED] has been repeatedly rejected by school officials [FALSE IN THAT SOMETIMES ITS ACCEPTED, POBODY'S NERFECT], he has failed to get books banned [FALSE, I OPPOSE BOOK BANNING AS DOES THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THOUGH EXPLICIT BOOKS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES IS A DIFFERENT STORY AND ALSO STRONGLY OPPOSED PER MULTIPLE POLLS], and despite his deranged [FALSE, HE'S MOCKING MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE NOW JUST TO SMEAR ME, AND HE'S AGAIN BORDERING ON DEFAMATION PER SE] certainty of her wrongdoing, he has been unable to get Hickson arrested [FALSE, I HAVE NEVER MADE ANY EFFORT TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST MARTHA HICKSON NOR ANYONE ELSE. MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE FIRST BEFORE CHARGES ARE BROUGHT].

How has Kleinman latched on to our district? His local social media friends include Licwinko, Piontek, sitting board member Nicole Gallo [FALSE], board member Lordi [FALSE], and Christopher Stadulis, husband of sitting member Cynthia Reyes-Stadulis [FALSE, I HAVEN'T "LATCHED ON" BECAUSE OF FRIENDS].

Gallo even parroted [FALSE, IT WAS INTERNATIONAL NEWS THAT THE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED SHE WON THE ELECTION BY SAYING SHE WAS A MARXIST AND SHE WOULD WIELD POWER WITHIN ALA ACCORDINGLY] some of Kleinman’s most ludicrous talking points at the June meeting: the American Library Association (ALA) is Marxist, “the ALA’s president is a known, self-admitted, Marxist lesbian who promotes Queer Theory,” and the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) “has a fist as a rose” to represent Marxism. “Marxists,” for those unfamiliar, are boogey-monsters [FALSE, AS WE CAN SEE WE RIGHT THERE WHERE THE NEW ALA PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED SHE WAS MARXIST AND WOULD NOW "WIELD POWER" WITHIN ALA. "SOLIDARITY," SHE SAID.  SHE WOULD LATER GO ON TO TELL FORMERLY JAILED MARXISTS AT THE SOCIALISM CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO THAT SHE NEEDS THEIR HELP IN TURNING LIBRARIES INTO SITES FOR SOCIALISM TRAINING.  SEE https://karlyn.substack.com/p/exclusive-recording-american-library] who exist only in far right-wing propaganda [FALSE, AGAIN WITH THE NAME CALLING]. The video is at about 3:17:30 on the board meeting video viewable at https://www.youtube.com/live/GXtyvkApHKg.

And why, despite his repeated failures [FALSE], does Kleinman keep coming back to this school board [AGAIN HE'S DISCOURAGING ATTENDANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS]? Who is funding Kleinman’s performances at these board meetings? His local contacts provide some clues.

One word: money. Just like the carpetbaggers of old, he accepts cold, hard cash in the form of a $1,000 per board meeting as an appearance fee [FALSE, IS THIS THE THIRD TIME NOW WITH THE DEFAMATION?].

In a Feb. 12 message exchange with a supporter of public education [FALSE, HE'S REFERRING TO MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, A SUPPORTER OF INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN ("PUSHING ALL KINDS OF NON SENSE IN NEW JERSEY SCHOOL, SUCH AS THE S@X ED CURRICULUM AND GENDER IDEOLOGY" SAYS @WAKEUPNJ ON X), NOT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.  IN GUY'S WORLD, EVERYONE ON HIS SIDE (LIKE @WAKEUPNJ SUMMARIZES)) IS AN ANGEL SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND EVERYONE ON THE OTHER SIDE SEEKING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM HARM IS DERANGED AND IS GRIFTING], Kleinman admitted [FALSE, JOKED WOULD BE THE ACCURATE TERM, BUT GUY DID NOT ASK ME NOR INVESTIGATE, HE JUST WENT AHEAD WITH A FALSE STORY BECAUSE IT ALIGNED WITH HIS OWN BELIEFS, AND HE MALIGNS ME FOR FILING OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH BEFORE I REPORT.  I JOKED BECAUSE THIS GUY GOTTESMAN HAS NEVER SPOKEN WITH ME BEFORE, AT LEAST NOT ON FACEBOOK, AND HIS FIRST STATEMENT TO ME WAS, "JUST WONDERING HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE TO SPEAK AT BOARD OF ED MEETINGS?"  WHAT AN ODD OPENING STATEMENT.  SO I PLAYED ALONG TO EXPOSE THE NETWORKS.  AND HERE'S GUY CITRON DEFAMING ME AS A GRIFTER WITH A PRIVATE MESSAGE ON FACEBOOK THAT HE GOT DIRECTLY FROM MICHAEL GOTTESMAN.  THERE'S YOUR NETWORKS.  SCHOOL LIBRARIANS COLLUDE WITH EACH OTHER BEHIND THE SCENES (I'VE REPORTED THIS IN AT LEAST THREE SEPARATE INSTANCES) AND HERE WE HAVE GUY CITRON PUBLISHING A PRIVATE MESSAGE JUST TO SMEAR ME AND WITHOUT FIRST FACT CHECKING.  HE COULD HAVE FILED AN OPRA WITH THE SCHOOL, FOR EXAMPLE, TO SEE IF I WAS PAID FOR THE TIMES I SPOKE.  HE DIDN'T.  HE WAS JUST INTERESTED IN THE SMEAR, NOT IN THE TRUTH.  THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT PEOPLE WHO ARE OVER THE TARGET HAVE TO ENDURE], “I have to make money somehow… so I charge a token amount of $1,000 for three minutes of speaking, but I usually stick around for the whole meeting.” A photo of the screenshot of this message is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.

Also, Kleinman is now openly soliciting for donations online to pay the legal bills he’s racking up at https://www.givesendgo.com/LegalFundForParents [SIGNIFICANT DECEPTION BY GUY CITRON.  THE FIRST VERSION OF HIS WRITING INCLUDED THE URL TO MY GIVE SEND GO THAT I PUT IN BOLD TO HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT HE ULTIMATELY DELETED.  THE UPDATED VERSION'S FIRST SIGNIFICANT EDIT WAS TO DELETE THE URL.  THAT'S INTENTIONAL DECEPTION.  AND IT REVEALS HE ONLY WANTS PEOPLE TO HEAR HIS FALSE VIEW AND NOT GO TO MY PUBLICATION TO READ THE TRUTH.  ALA LIBRARIANS AND SUPPORTERS DO THIS ROUTINELY TO SUFFOCATE ANY OPPOSITION AND NOT GIVE IT OXYGEN; JUST GO THERE AND LOOK AT THE COMMENTS TO SEE I'M BEING SMEARED RIGHT IN THE COMMENTS OF THE GIVE SEND GO, AND GUY CITRON IS HERE TO PUT THOSE SMEARS INTO PRINT AS THAT'S ANOTHER THING HE ADDS VIA STEALTH EDIT.  THAT'S WHAT GUY CITRON HAS DONE HERE.  COMPARE VERSION 1 (Mar 7, 2025) https://archive.ph/3Vi6Y with VERSION 2 (Mar 7, 2025 Updated Mar 11, 2025) https://archive.ph/jhtMG  IN THE SECOND VERSION, NOTICE HE ADDED THOSE COMMENTS SMEARING ME IN MY GIVE SEND GO: "So desperate is Kleinman to pick your pocket that he is falsely claiming that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial target of his abuse; she has reported the fraud to both the fundraising platform and law enforcement". MARTHA HICKSON IS POSTING ABOUT THIS COMMENTARY BY GUY CITRON CURRENTLY SO YOU KNOW SHE AND GUY CITRON ARE COLLUDING ON THE SMEAR.  I THINK WE CAN SEE WHO IS THE INTOLERABLE ONE HERE, AND IT'S NOT ME]. So desperate [FALSE] is Kleinman to pick your pocket [FALSE, AND THIS MAY BE THE FOURTH INSTANCE OF HIS DEFAMATION OF ME] that he is falsely claiming [FALSE] that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial [FALSE] target [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] of his abuse [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM]; she has reported the fraud [FALSE, THIS IS HIS FIFTH INSTANCE OF DEFAMATION, DEFAMATION PER SE IN THIS CASE] to both the fundraising platform [FALSE?  HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE] and law enforcement [FALSE?  HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE]. In 2024, Kleinman spoke at three of our meetings and likely authored the remarks for a fourth, totaling maybe $4,000 in “appearance fees.” [FALSE.  I DON'T CHARGE FEES.  I DO THIS AS PART OF MY 25 YEARS OF JOURNALISM ON HOW ALA HARMS COMMUNITIES.  MARTHA HICKSON INVITED ALA INTO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, AND YOU DON'T HEAR GUY CITRON COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT, COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW FOLLOWING ALA'S ADVICE FROM CHICAGO IS REALLY THE CAUSE OF ALL THE EXPENDITURES.  AGAIN. IT'S PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] This provokes panic [FALSE], cycles his engagement [FALSE], and begs serious questions [FALSE]:

• Just what is Kleinman’s standing within our community? That answer is none [FALSE]. Kleinman doesn’t live here, has never lived here, and has no children in the district. And yet he was again at the school board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25. No one wants a national bully [FALSE, IF THERE IS ANY NATIONAL BULLY INVOLVED, IT IS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND ITS LOCAL ACOLYTE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AND HER COCONSPIRATOR GUY CITRON] as an un-elected official. Yet here we are. We, the sensible [FALSE, IT IS NOT SENSIBLE TO INVITE IN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TO INDOCTRINATE COMMUNITY CHILDREN AND VIOLATE LOCAL LAWS, COMMUNITY STANDARDS, AND COMMON SENSE], education-focused public must fight [FALSE, ALWAYS WITH THE WORD FIGHT WITH THESE PEOPLE] back. Attend school board meetings, question business not related to school, and speak out against tax-dollar wasting [FALSE], expert agitators [FALSE], like Kleinman.

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List of Librarians Who Agree Marxism is Not a Radical Notion, Support Marxist President of American Library Association

Below is a list of librarians who supported Emily Drabinski for being Marxist as the President of the American Library Association.  Most notably, they agree Marxism "is not a radical notion."  

Use this list to look for your favorite librarian who agrees Marxism is not a radical notion.  

I just found the one from Louisiana suing me for defamation, for example, and the one from New Jersey who convinced a NJ school board and the state legislature and governor to allow school children to have obscenity despite New Jersey law opposing obscenity for persons under eighteen years old.  

Of the 2405 signatures, only two signed anonymously.  ALA has a membership of 48,000, so librarians agreeing Marxism "is not a radical notion" is just over five percent.  5%!  Does that mean 5% of ALA is Marxist?  Is the below a list of Marxist librarians?

Just look at the names.  There are two New Jersey Library Association Executive Board members, for example.  Two!  And the NJ Freedom to Read Act just elevated them to decide what school boards are allowed to do!

These Marxists even complain that ALA itself didn't openly support Marxism: "ALA issued a statement in response to MSLC's withdrawal that did not reference Emily or address homophobia or speak to how Marx's idea that 'From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.' is not a radical notion."  So their open support for Marxism is explicitly made clear and cannot be denied.

By the way, more states have dropped out of ALA, New Hampshire being the latest, so this letter of support for Marxism obviously didn't help.  But ALA's move toward more Marxism has accelerated.

Republishing per statement, "This letter can be shared."  I'm sharing!  You're welcome!  Enjoy!

https://bit.ly/emilydrabinski

See also:

• "Texas Librarians Sign Petition Supporting Marxist President of American Library Association; Multiple States are Considering Cutting Ties with the American Library Association Over Their President-Elect," by Valerie Muñoz, Texas Scorecard, 17 July 2023 (citing SafeLibraries in the second paragraph).

Letter of Support for Emily Drabinski

This letter can be shared: https://bit.ly/emilydrabinski

In light of the decision by the Montana State Library Commission (MSLC) to withdraw from the American Library Association (ALA) because of its incoming ALA president, librarian and scholar Emily Drabinski. 

After learning the election results that named Drabinski ALA's next president, she identified herself in a Tweet as a "Marxist lesbian" who believes in collective power--and has a mom who is very proud of her.

Emily Drabinski will be a compassionate, capable and courageous ALA President and we look forward to what she'll be able to achieve.  Emily has proven herself to be a fearless and powerful leader, time and time again.  She led her faculty union to victory when they were locked out by Long Island University and started a cooperative homeschool during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic.  She is a scholar of critical cataloging and library instruction, whose work has been cited over 1,000 times. 

Emily was born and raised in Montana's neighboring state of Idaho and goes back to visit her proud mom every year. Emily is passionate about sports and her three cats; she's a proud blood donor with a great sense of humor. She's got a partner with whom she parents a teenage son and an identical twin sister who is Emily's biggest champion.  

We are living in times where homophobia is rampant in libraries, with library workers at risk of physical violence and online harassment on a regular basis. State library associations that aren't standing up to homophobic anti-book and -library groups are not doing their jobs as library advocates*. 

Librarians and other library workers need to stand against bigotry. Marxism is an economic philosophy not a political platform. Turning this into a partisan issue resulting in a minority-led dissolution of a longstanding nourishing partnership–a move which will harm the future of libraries and library professional associations in the State of Montana–is deeply misguided and uninformed.

ALA issued a statement in response to MSLC's withdrawal that did not reference Emily or address homophobia or speak to how Marx's idea that "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs." is not a radical notion.

We, the undersigned, register our support for Emily Drabinski and her ALA presidency. Add yourself (link goes to cryptpad.fr) (We're adding people manually, so please be patient) (thank you)

* The Montana Library Association and the Montana State Library Commission are different entities. MLA is supportive of ALA.

Jessamyn West

Vermont Mutual Aid Society

ALA Vermont Chapter Councilor

Jenna Freedman

Barnard Library

ALA Member

Marissa Bischoff

Utah Library Association Immediate Past-President

Carolee Gilligan Wheeler

Mariame Kaba

Director, Project NIA

ALA member

Tony Corsentino

Heather Posey VanDyne

ALA Kansas Chapter Councilor

Kristin Buxton

Librarian 

ALA Member

Samantha Kannegiser

ALA Library Instruction Round Table Councilor 

Kelly McElroy 

Oregon State University

ALA Member

Jordan Hale 

Librarian

Hallie Pritchett

ALA GODORT Councilor

Matthew Murray 🦇

Data Librarian at CU Boulder 

ALA Member

kalan Knudson Davis

ALA Member, RBMS Member

Eira Tansey

Archivist, Consultant and Researcher (Memory Rising LLC) 

ALA Member

Timothy Vollmer

UC Berkeley Library 

ALA Member

Erin Berman

ALA RainbowRT Councilor

Frank Skornia

ALA Member

Karin Dalziel

Assistant Director, Digital Strategies, University of Lincoln-Nebraska Libraries

Alexandra Rivera

ALA Councilor

Kara Whatley

University Librarian, Caltech

ALA ACRL Division Councilor

Teresa Schultz

ALA member

Dorothea Salo

Distinguished Teaching Faculty III, Information School, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paige Morgan

University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press

Shanna Hollich 

ALA member

Joseph Malek

Barbara Ball

Director, Windsor Public Library, VT

Meredith Wisner

Barnard Library

Katharine Phenix

ALA member

Charles Kratz

ALA Member 

Kirsten Mentzer

Cristy Danford

Librarian

Jayne Blodgett

ALA Colorado Chapter Councilor

Bob Diaz

ALA Councilor

Gretchen Kolderup

Librarian 

ALA Member

Shannon O'Neill

NYU Special Collections

Leigh Hurwitz

Coordinator of School Outreach Services, Brooklyn Public Library

Caroline Korejko

Library Director, North Hero Public Library

Eva Raison

Director, Outreach Services, Brooklyn Public Library

ALA Member

Elaine Harger

Former ALA Council member

Lindsey G Bright

Librarian and Archivist, Archives of American Art

Robin Goodfellow Malamud

Boston Public Library 

Nadia M Orozco-Sahi

ALA Rainbow RT Chair

Anne-Marie Deitering

Oregon State University

Joanna Gadsby

UMBC

ALA member

Catherine Goldsmith, MLS

Library Director, Starksboro Public Library

President, VT Library Association - Public Libraries Sec

Augusta "Gus" Chapman

Support Staff at Barnard College

Justin White

Scholarly Communications Librarian

Paul Richmond 

Assistant Technical Services Librarian at Emerson College 

ALA Member

Lynne M. Thomas

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Jayne Blodgett

Colorado Chapter Councilor

Virginia Marshall

Staff member at Brooklyn Public Library

member of ALA

Valerie Forrestal

Academic Librarian

Rachel Weiss

Brooklyn Public Library

Laura Lanigan 

Erica Moroz

Brooklyn Public Library

Christine Salek

University of Wisconsin‚ Madison

Sarah Unruh

MSLIS student 

member of ALA and ACRL

Brady Beard

Librarian

ALA Member

K.J. Rawson

Director, Digital Transgender Archive; Chair, Homosaurus Editorial Board

Melissa Morrone

Brooklyn Public Library

ALA member

Connor Cantrell

Library Assistant

Madeline Peña Feliz

ALA Councilor at Large

Ai Miller

Reference Specialist, Health Sciences Library, University of Minnesota

Jeanine Finn

Librarian 

Jennifer Parsons

ALA Member

Emily Dowdell

Jennifer Joe

ALA Library Research Roundtable (LRRT) Councilor 

Jaime Gilden

Garren Hochstetler

Emily Nelson

Anna Opryszko

ALA member

Bryn Hoffman

Director, Cobleigh Public Library, VT

Alex Gil

Yale University

Eileen Gatti

Director, Goddard College Library, VT

Megan Riley

UCLA Department of Information Studies

ALA member

Kacy Helwick

ALA Member

Annie Downey

University of Washington Tacoma Librarian 

ALA member

Gesina Phillips

Former ALA member, former ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Outreach Committee chair (2019-2021)

Rebecca Moorman

ALA Alaska Chapter Councilor, IFRT Director at Large

Dave Mayo

Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman

Chapter Leader (WLA Board President 2023)

Talya Cooper

NYU

Marisa Petrich

ALA Member

Diedre Conkling

ALA Member 

Annie Sollinger

ALA Member 

Andromeda Yelton

Former LITA President

Allison Thompson

Health Sciences Course Materials Coordinator at the University of Minnesota Libraries

Joy Worland

ALA member

Kate McManus

Avi Rappoport

MLIS

Gwyn Sise

Librarian trainee

Rakisha Kearns-White

Public Librarian, NYLA member, a Library Journal 2023 Mover & Shaker

Drew Jackson

ALA Member

Andy Hamilton

Sophie Ziegler

Director, Solidarity History Initiative 

Amie Toepfer

Senior Librarian, Ketchikan Public Library

ALA Member

Justin Miller

Chicago Public Library

Jennifer McGrath 

ALA member

Steph Noell

Special Collections Librarian, UTSA

ALA member

Natacha Liuzzi

Children's Specialist, South Burlington VT

Nac Payne

Library Assistant

100 signatories

Katy Rawdon

Special Collections Research Center, Temple University

Nick Szydlowski

Digital Scholarship Librarian, San José State University

ALA Member

Randi Mason

Librarian

Catey Farley

Marissa Guidara

Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities Advisor

Mark Charles Rosenzweig

Co-chair of the International Responsibilities Task Force of SRRT; Member of SRRT Action Council

Ellen Pozzi

LHRT Councilor

ALA Member

Melinda Borie

ALA Member, Member of PLA Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice 

Valerie Pfister

Librarian

Sarah Stang

Licensing and Shared Print Coordinator, COPPUL

ALA Member

Kathryn La Barre

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ALA member

Arthur Boston

Librarian

Kelsey Speaks

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UW Tacoma Library

Sunshine Carter

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Christina Rodriques

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Rainbow RT Chair

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Molly Bostrom

University of Minnesota Libraries

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Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Pamela Larsen

Youth Services, Programming and Outreach Librarian

ALA/PLA/ABOS/NLA Member

Chuck Munson

Librarian, former ALA member

Mary Gen Davies

ALA Member, Rainbow Roundtable Member

Gretchen Neidhardt

ALA member

Alison Macrina

Director, Library Freedom Project 

Caitlin Lenox

University of Minnesota

ALA member

Adriene Lim, PhD, MLIS

ALA Councilor at Large

Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman

Past Publisher,The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian 

Past ALA President

Cate Triola

University of Minnesota Libraries

ALA Member

Coral Sheldon-Hess

former Councilor-at-Large

Claudia Acosta

Barnard Library

Athena Waid

Chris Strauber

Boston College

Madeline Jarvis 

Librarian

Catherine Doyle

Nazareth University 

Melissa Hubbard

ALA member, RBMS Chair 2022-23

MD Galvin

ALA Member

Christy Liddy

Karolyn MacAskill

Assistant Librarian - Media Center ISD 623

Joe Neumann

Access and Special Collections Librarian, Thurgood Marshall Law Library, UMaryland Baltimore 

Linda Salem

ALA Member

Todd Grappone

AUL UCLA Library 

Debbie Reese

American Indians in Children's Literature

Victoria Van Hyning 

Assistant Professor of Library Innovation, University of Maryland, iSchool

ALA member

Carmen Mitchell

California State University San Marcos

Becky Yoose

Bear L.W. Smith

Librarian

Garth Tardy

Special Collections Catalog Librarian

John Overholt

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Gina Schlesselman-Tarango

Cheryl Knott

iSchool, University of Arizona

ALA-accredited library and information science program

Brea Fearon

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Helen Lutke

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Jesse Silva

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Author

Mat Wranovics

Library Assistant, UCLA

Annie Jaffe

ALA Member

Jennie Rose Halperin

Library Futures/NYU, ALA Committee on Legislation, Education, Advocacy 

Rachel D. Williams, PhD

University of South Carolina School of Information 

Rita Meade

Librarian

Kate Johnson

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Ray Pun

Carol Fisher 

Librarian 

Washington State University, Vancouver 

ALA / ACRL Member 

Sam Buechler

Librarian, Washington State University Vancouver

ALA Member

Kelly Marie Blanchat

Yale University Library

gerardo colmenar 

Social Responsibilities Round Table - Action Council Member

Sarah Glazer

Public Services Specialist

Timberland Regional Library

Tarika Sankar

Brown University

Kendra K. Levine 

UC Berkeley

ALA Member

Michelle Fisher

ALA Member

Circulation Specialist & MA LIS Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Danielle Afsordeh, M.A., C.A.

Community Outreach Archivist, Central Arkansas Library System

Institutional ALA member

Jason Guthartz 

MLIS student 

Daniella Pagan

Librarian

ALA Member

Elizabeth Benoodt

Librarian

Frances Jacobson Harris

ALA Lifetime Member, retired school librarian

Emily Dowie

Teen Librarian, Librarian II, Greenburgh Public Library, 

ALA Councilor-at-Large (2023-2026)

Aaron Hulsey

Librarian

Crista Cannariato

Librarian

Tatiana Bryant 

Barnard College

Skylar Cotnam

Scott Businsky

ALA member; Vice President, Delaware Library Association 

Julian Brown

Public librarian, ALA Member

Ari DeNardo

ALA Member

McCall Olson

Public library worker 

Shawne West

CSUDH Archivist

Kendra Cowley

Toronto Public Library

Azad Namazie

UCLA

Mercedes Zabawa

Holly Wilson

Liaison Librarian at Pratt Institute

former ALA member

Kelly Wooten

Librarian, Duke University Libraries

Sarah Werner

Shauna Costache

Public Service Supervisor, Stratford Public Library  (ON, CA)

Agnieszka Czeblakow 

Tulane University 

Jose Guerrero

ALA Member, RBMS Member

Ian McCullough

Science Librarian, The College of Wooster

ALA-ACRL-STS

Becca Greenstein

Northwestern University Libraries

ALA Member

Ellie Hamrick

Youth Services Librarian, Chauncey Public Library

April Sheppard

SRRT Past-Coordinator

Megan Sanks

Youth Services Librarian

ALA member

Alexa Patsalis 

MSLIS and Graduate Assistant 

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Marie Waltz

​​ALA Member

200 signatories 

Amy Dittmeier

ALA member

Caroline Hartman

Librarian 

Laura Braunstein

Dartmouth College

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Alison Clemens

ALA member, Yale University Library

Elisa Gall

ALA Member

Stephanie Bennett

Archivist

Jeffrey Dean

former recon librarian, JKM Library (Chicago) & UC Berkeley Music Library

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University Archivist, University of Maryland

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Harvard Library

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ALA Student Member

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Barnard College

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Dylan Flesch

New York Public Radio

Patricia Glass Schuman

ALA Past president

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Tess Wilson

Library Freedom Project

Amy Tureen

Dean of Academic Success Programs, South Puget Sound Community College 

Sarah Clinton

Librarian

Robin Ewing

ALA Member

Anne Heidemann

ALA member

Maura Seale

University of Michigan

Ashley Enochs

Sawyer Library, Suffolk University

Julia Callahan

Smith College Acquisitions Associate, ALA Member

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ALA member

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Colby College, Reforma member

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Library Worker, member of SEIU 73 (Northwestern University Library Workers United)

Kary Henry

ALA and ALSC 

Annika Wilcox

UIUC MSLIS Student

ALA Student Member 

Allison Seyler

Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University 

Sam Ehlinger 

ALA Member

Library Associate

Sarah cuk 

Digitization technician at the NYC Municipal Archives 

Josh Honn

Librarian, Northwestern University

Em Tarrant

Library Associate - Chicago Public Library

Christina Meninger

Archivist

Elise Ferer

ALA Member

Binghamton University Libraries

Andy Kretschmar

Librarian, Smith College

Linda Miles

Chair, Community & Junior College Libraries Section, ACRL

Alelya Stone

Adult Services Librarian, Puyallup Public Library WA

ALA Member

Kit Messick

Smith College Special Collections

Rebecca Esquivel

ALA Member

Alexandra deGraffenreid

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Vincent Kelley

Student, University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies

Sal Hamerman

Librarian

Liz Becker

Circulation Supervisor

Amy Bishop

ALA member

Michelle Gibeault

Privacy subcommittee

Emily Horan

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University of Tennessee at Martin

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University of Miami

Julie Mount

Graphic Designer for a county library system

Ryn Gagen

Librarian, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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Vani Natarajan

Daniel Matthews

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Chair, Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association

UW Libraries

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Penn State University Libraries

Leslie Gascon

Librarian

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Laura Barrett

Head of Teaching & Learning

Dartmouth Library

Paul Gilbert II

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Kelly Davis

Free Library of Philadelphia

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Sandra Davis

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Bernadine Abbott Hoduski

former ALA councilor and member of Montana LA

Jasmine Malone

Student

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Librarian

Wendolyn Vermeer

Library Collections Services Coordinator

Olivia Scully

Co-Chair, Legislative Committee, CT Library Association; Member-at-Large, SRRT Action Council, ALA

Annie Zeidman-Karpinski

Librarian and ALA member since 2000

Sara Kelly Johns

ALA Councilor-at-Large

Jennifer Mullins 

Dartmouth Library 

Jessica Farrell

Educopia Institute

Josue Hurtado

Temple University

Dave Ellenwood

Faculty Librarian, Seattle Central College

Shannon K. Supple

ALA member, former chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS)

Roseann Saah

Public School Librarian

Amanda Belantara 

ALA member 

Marisca Mozeleski

Massachusetts Public Librarian, non-member of the ALA

member of State/Regional associations

Kathleen Breitenbach

Rainbow Round Table, Social Responsibilities Round Table, YALSA

Councilor-at-Large

Kate Moriarty

Saint Louis University

ALA member, RBMS member

Michelle Caswell

Professor, UCLA

Annabel Carroll

Graham Sherriff

Librarian

Kelli Hansen

ALA Member

Erin Haddad-Null 

ALA Member

Joseph Winberry

ALA Member 

Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science

Graeme Williams

ALA Member

Jamie Kurumaji

ALA Councilor at Large

Sarah Pirila 

ALA Student Member

Hanna Roseen

Librarian

Former ALA member

Jessica Chapel

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Madison Sullivan, University of Washington Libraries

Jim DelRosso

Librarian

Assistant Director, Catherwood Library, Cornell University

ALA Member

Wesley Teal

Iowa State University Library

ALA Member

Sady Sullivan

Oral Historian 

stephanie kirkpatrick

librarian and former ALA member

Tyra Briscoe

Ashley Chou

Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Library Services

300 signatories

Gina Solares

ALA Member, RBMS Member

Sandy Enriquez

University of California, Riverside

Polly Cancro

Special Collections Librarian

NYU Libraries

Amanda Sprochi

ALA/Core member, Chair, Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access

Justin Schell

University of Michigan Library

Meghan Lafferty

University of Minnesota Libraries & ALA member

Eirini Melena Karoutsos

Rachel McGuire

Librarian

Gretchen Alexander

Librarian

Meghan McGowan

Wayne State University, AAUP-AFT 6075

ALA member

Terry Baxter

President, Society of American Archivists

Rory Litwin

Library Juice Press

ALA Member

Laura Crossett

Library Futures

former ALA member

Stephanie Anderson

BCPL-IAMAW Local Lodge 4538 Recording Secretary

Sarah Jones

Temple University Libraries

ALA member

Jeanette Sewell

Database and Metadata Management Coordinator, Fondren Library

Mara Sedlins

Colorado State University

ALA member

Robert Bittner

Vice-President / President-Elect, ALSC

Helene Williams

Teaching Professor, University of Washington Information School

Thea Lindquist

University of Colorado Boulder

Timothy Garrison

Teamster, Local 743 - Library Assistant at University of Chicago

Kelly McKinley-Ford

Public Librarian, Florida Library Association Member

Former ALA Member

Jamie A. Lee

Carey Toane

University of Toronto Libraries

Ellen Keith

Librarian

Carter Beeson

Ohio Public Librarian

Kate Dohe

University of Maryland Libraries

Adela C. Licona

Associate Professor Emeritus, English, University of Arizona 

Violet Fox

Northwestern University

ALA member

Jenna Ingham

ALA Member

Beth DeBold 

ALA Member

Gr Keer

Librarian

Samara Cary

Dartmouth College Library

Dot Porter

Curator, Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania 

Alenka Figa

Em Tone

Brooklyn Public Library 

Kelly Christian

Knowledge Manager

Alice Rosewater

Library Assistant

Timberland Regional Library

Kayla Hoskinson

Free Library of Philadelphia

Rebecca Kuglitsch 

ALA Member

Jesse O'Dunne

Liz Gardiner

Children's Librarian, Free Library of Philadelphia

David Holt

Senior Research Librarian

UC Davis - School of Law

Kathy Kosinski

ALA Member

Kestrel Gregorich-Trevor

MLIS Student

Paige Laino

FWIW My workplace does support Emily! 

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture!

Tina Gross 

ALA member 

Lisa Schiff

California Digital Library, University of California

Melissa Hozik

ALA Member

Casey Winkleman

Librarian, IS Library and Media Preservation Lab

Department of Information Studies, UCLA

Ahliah Bratzler

ALA Member

Jeremy Brett 

Texas A&M University 

Carson Stachura

Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Anna Perricci

Jennifer Osorio

Director, Library Special Collections

UCLA Library

Jules Ray

Greenville County Library System

ALA Member

Char Booth

Associate Dean, California State University San Marcos Library

ALA Member

Kate Goodman

Philadelphia Library worker and AFSCME DC 47 Local 47 member

Matthew Noe

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Sophia Stoll

Reed Garber-Pearson

University of Washington Libraries

Sydni Meyer

Kelsey Westenberg

Collections Librarian

Glenview Public Library

Althea Lazzaro 

ALA Member

Adam L. Schiff

University of Washington Libraries

Principal Cataloger

ALA Member

Mark Hall

Public Librarian

Sarah Varenhorst

Librarian 

Brooklyn Public Library

David Gill (he | him | his)

Librarian in British Columbia, Canada

Whitney Kemble

Librarian, University of Toronto

Annie Gaines

Bailey Hoffner

Oklahoma State University

Wally Grotophorst

Recent member (so I could vote for Emily)

Maty Cropley

Past President, BPLPSA MLSA Local 4928 AFT- MA 

Timothy Johnson

University of Minnesota

ALA/ACRL/RBMS Member

Jessica Trujillo 

ALA Member

Dani Rowland

Academic Librarian

I rejoined ALA after leaving for a few years, because Emily was elected

Bryce Kieren Healy

Boston Public Library Professional Staff Association/MLSA 4928

Alee Schmierer

University of Minnesota

Janelle Zetty

ALA Member

Cory Lampert

ALA Member

Dustin Fife

College Librarian, Colorado College 

ALA Member

Claudia Berger 

Kelsey Rolofson

Ariel Dyer

Librarian

Allegra Swift

UC San Diego Library

ALA member - recently lapsed 

Megan Browndorf

University of Chicago

ALA Member

Alex Morgan-Bloch

UW-MILS Student

Baruch Levine

Librarian in Haverford Township, PA

MLIS at Drexel University

ALA Member

Nicola Andrews

Librarian

Melissa Augustine

academic librarian

Jason Smith

MSLIS/MA History Student

ALA Student Member

Jennifer Vinopal

Dave Bartos

Holli J. Ronquillo

Librarian

Travis Kelley

Amanda Pirog

Business and User Experience Librarian, UW Tacoma

Autumn Lynch

Librarian

Ley Frank

Student and GA at the UIUC iSchool

Jarrett Dapier 

Vice-president, Freedom To Read Foundation

400 signatories

Sarah Lamdan

CUNY School of Law

ALA Member

Rosy Wagner

Burlington County Library System, NJ

Lisa Rabey

ALA Member

Allyson Turner

Community College of Aurora

ALA Member

Jennifer Cwiok

Gottesman Research Library at the American Museum of Natural History

Megha Bamola

Youth Services at Oak Park | Preservation at City of Detroit

ALA Member, Spectrum Scholar

DeDe Dawson

Librarian

ALA member

Miranda Siler

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Kayte McPhee

Current MALIS Student

Dylan Burns

University of Washington 

Tom Melton

Emma Kearney

Librarian

ALA Member

Rebecca Graves

Health Sciences Librarian, University of Missouri 

Kaitlyn Lynch

Dinah Handel

Librarian

Rev. Heather Roan Robbins, Ronan, Montana

John Fink

Librarian

Rick & Megan Prelinger

Prelinger Library & Archives, San Francisco

Hazel Woodward

University of Wisconsin - Madison iSchool student

David Perzel, II

Librarian

Kristine Alpi 

ALA member since 1996

Katrina Burch 

Courtney Dean

Archivist

Kevin Dean

Cuyahoga County Public Library

Weston Tate

UC Berkeley

Cynthia Eschenfelder

Patricia Devine

Librarian, University of Washington

Lily Troia

Society for Science at User Research Facilities

Karilyn Steward

Senior Librarian

ALA Member

Stephen Bollinger

ALA Member

Jenn Colt

Associate Librarian, Cornell University Library

Member, ALA & Core

Melaina Squicciarini (They/Them)

ALA Member, YALSA Member 2024-2025 RRT Booklist Committee, NJLA YASS Member at Large

Cody Hanson

ALA Member, former LITA board member

Kristen Schmidt

Public librarian, ALA member, CSKBART committee member 

Maggie Hughes

ALA Member

Benjamin Saracco 

Chair of Rowan University Libraries

COPE Chair of Rowan AFT 2373

Kristina Vela Bisbee

Mike Selby

Librarian

Award-Winning Author

Ivan Willig

Emily's neighbor 

Josh Rose

Maggie Farrell

ALA Councilor at Large

Mary Garboden

Librarian,Ypsilanti, MI

Fletcher Durant

University of Florida Libraries

ALA Member, Core Publications Committee

Al Kagan

ALA SRRT Action Council 

Heather MacFadyen

Eti Berland

ALA Member 

Annie Pho

Immediate Past President of APALA

Allee Monheim

ALA Member

Zia Davidian

Librarian

Eduardo Rivera

Librarian III. New York Institute of Technology 

Annie Windholz 

ALA member 

Emma Karin Eriksson

Brooklyn Public Library

Alexandra Hauser

Michigan State University

ALA member & volunteer

Maria Planansky

Alfred University

ALA Member

Stephanie A. Miller

Graduate Theological Union

Gina Watts

Independent archivist

Sarah Hovde

ALA member

Sarah Houghton

ALA member, Intellectual Freedom Committee member, Information Technology Advisory Committee member

Margaret Breidenbaugh

Gender and Sexuality SACO Funnel

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College 

Jen Wilson

University of Delaware

ALA member

Carl Hess, He/Him

University of Memphis

United Campus Workers/CWA Local 3865

David James Hudson

Associate Librarian, University of Guelph

Marie Brignac

Librarian

Angie Neely-Sardon

Librarian

Melissa Haley

Archivist

Beanbag Amerika

Brooklyn Public Library

Erin Bogle

Library Patrons Union Member 

Harmony Birch

Brooklyn Public Library

Jane Ellen

Mase Woodland 

Librarian PWU

Jay Sylvestre 

Georgetown University ALA member 

Ryann Riggs

Adult Services Librarian 

ALA member 

Dr. Nicole Cooke 

Professor, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina 

ALA Member

Meredith Farkas

Faculty Librarian, Portland Community College

Mackenzie Johnson

ALA Member

Maura Smale

CUNY Graduate Center

ALA member

Deb Verhoeven

Canada Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta

JS Shokrian

Artist in Residence, Beall Center for Art + Tech, University of California

MJ Norris

John J. Ronald 

Interlibrary Loan Paraprofessional

ALA Member

Margy MacMillan

Mount Royal University (Retired)

Christina Miskey

ALA Member

Miriam Cady

Smith College Special Collections

ALA member

Nicholas Schiller

Julia Tanenbaum

Danica E. White

Penn State University,

ALA Member

Maria McGrath 

ALA Member

K.C. Boyd

ALA Member

Jen Bolmarcich 

Librarian, Hampshire College

Christopher Harter

University of Cincinnati

ALA member

Maureen Maryanski

Indiana University

Melissa A. Wong

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ALA Member

Jonathan Engel

ALA member

Joel Abrams

ALA member

Juliann Couture

Adrianna Martinez

SUNY New Paltz

ALA and ACRL member 

Cheryl Cyr 

Librarian

ALA Member

Shana Higgins

Access Services Librarian @ CSU, San Bernardino

ALA Member

Lydia Tang

Lyrasis

ALA and RBMS member

500 signatories

Amanda Jones 

ALA Councilor at Large

Marie Sciangula

Purchase College, SUNY

Alex Byrne

Youth Services Librarian

Zoe Wake Hyde

Mesh Research, Michigan State University

Leah Richardson 

Librarian, George Washington University.

ALA Councilor-at-Large

Pranav Prakash

Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK

Reilly Moloney

Chris George

BCPL-IAMAW Local Lodge 4538

TK Sangwand

UCLA Library

Theresa Agostinelli

Librarian

Heather Furnas

Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Elissa Martel

ALA Member

Max Burns

Meave Gallagher

Librarian

Member, ALA

Kate Crowe

Curator of Special Collections and Archives 

Jane Lofton

retired teacher librarian

ALA member

Kenny Garcia

ALA Councilor-at-large 

Susan KS Grigsby, Ed.S

Director of Library Services

Stamford American Int'l School, Singapore

ALA Member

Kim Nguyen

Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library

Peter bromberg

ALA Emerging Leaders Chair 2007-2012; ALA Member 1996-2020

Alana Mohamed

Caroline Perez

Emma Heck

MSI student, University of Michigan School of Information

Ann K. Symons

ALA Past President 

ALA Honorary Member 

Suzanne Maguire 

Mike Marlin

Director, California Braille and Talking Book Library, blind librarian

ALA Councilor-at-Large

Benjamin Bradley

University of Maryland Libraries

ALA Member

TJ Hoffer

Emily Reed

ALA Member

Christina D. Chavez Nelson

ALA Student Member

Amanda Koziura

ALA Member

Jennifer Heaslip

ALA member

Morgan Green-Griffin, MLS, CVA

Municipal Government Professional

Colleen Seisser

YALSA President 

Kate Holvoet

San Diego State University 

Karen Nicholson

S.E. Hackney 

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY

Kalyn Harris 

Children's Librarian 

Jennifer McCulley

ALA Member

Brian Huffman

Law Librarian

Jen Weidner 

Nancy Kranich

ALA Past President

ALA Member

Ashley Hawkins 

NYCDOE School Librarian 

NYLA, NYCSLA, AASL, & ALA Member 

Allison Law

Caro Bratnober

Columbia University Libraries

Murphy Anne Carter

Texas After Violence Project

Cristina Bueno 

ALA Member

Michelle Wisbey

ALA Member

Ivanya L. Alpert, MD

Audrey Richards

Amelia N. Gibson

Associate Professor University of Maryland College of Information Studies

Alicia Long

ALA member

Mallary Rawls

ALA member

Emily Long

Librarian

ALA member 

James Lowry

Chair and Director, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College CUNY

Rachel Wysoki

Jen Mazzoni

MLIS Student

ALA member

Danielle Lewis

Dr. Mega Subramaniam

University of Maryland

Rosemary K. J. Davis 

Archivist, Yale University Library

ALA member

Kellee E. Warren

University of Illinois Chicago

ALA and ACRL RBMS Member

Arianne Hartsell-Gundy

Duke University

ALA member

Allison Bailund

ALA Member

Emma Riese

Public library worker

Hennepin County Library 

Chelsea Heinbach

ALA member

Kenneth A. Yamashita

JCLC Inc.

ALA Member

Britta Krabill

ALA Member

Erin Blake

ALA Member, RBMS Member

Perlita Payne

Supervising Librarian

Jane Healy

Librarian 

Ryan Roberts

ALA Lifetime Member

Laura Jenkins

ALA Member

Maxwell Holland

Inglewood Public Library &

UCLA American Indian Studies Center

Junie Hayashi

Public Services Librarian, Leeward Community College

ALA member

Shanta Dickerson

Executive Director, Friends of Johnson County (KS) Library

Virginia Martin

Duke University

ALA Member

Karen Gisonny

ALA member

Jason Grote

Writer

Diane P. Tuccillo 

Retired Teen Services Librarian 

Friends of the Knox County Public Library board member 

ALA member; YALSA; United for Libraries 

Jared Howland

ALA Member

Ally Jones

Mai Takahashi 

Seattle Public Library 

ALSC EDI Committee Co- Chair 

Dr. Rachel Ivy Clarke 

Associate Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies

Patrick Lloyd 

The University of Texas at Austin 

Martha Hickson, MLIS

ALA member

Merinda McLure

Sara Gain

Librarian 

Emily Thompson

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library

ALA member

Janet Segal, Board Member 

United for Libraries 

Ash Greco Ellis 

former support staff, Houston Public Library

kristen iemma 

PhD Candidate, Brown University 

MSLIS, Pratt Institute 

Anthony Dardis 

Hofstra University 

Adrienne Nguyen

Academic Librarian

Mariagabriella Stuardi

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Eddie Kristan 

ALA Member

John C. Triplett

ALA, AASL member

Tonia Sutherland

Assistant Professor, Information Studies

UCLA 

Daniel Clarkson Fisher

ALA Member

Meggan Ford

ALA member

Joshua Neds-Fox

Wayne State University Library System

Jennifer Finch

Branch Manager

Spring Branch-Memorial Branch

Harris County Public Library

TLA member

600 signatories

Michelle Lee

ALA Member

Matthew R. Marsteller

ALA/ACRL/STS/ULS Member

Ellie Collier

Library Services Engineer, EBSCO. ALA Emerging Leader, 2008

Lucas S. Maurer

MLIS Candidate at SJSU, ALA Member

Emily Horning

Yale University Library 

ALA Member 

Carrie Pirmann

Bucknell University 

Rebecca Nowicki

San Diego State University. 

ALA Member

Leo Robert Klein

Librarian 

ALA Member

Leslie L Morgan

2020-2023: Councilor at Large

ALA Member

Paula Gray-Overtoom

Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, IN

Elaine Franco

Retired librarian, ALA member

Alex Austin

Lisa Spagnolo

UC Davis Library

ALA Member

Liorah Golomb

Humanities Librarian, University of Oklahoma 

Kate Donovan 

Bancroft Library Director 

AUL for Special Collections 

UC Berkeley 

ALA Member 

Lacey Torge

Litwin Books/Library Juice Press

Editor-in-chief

Lauren Reinhalter

Council on Foreign Relations , Gov docs round table 

Beth St. Jean

Associate Professor, University of Maryland College of Information Studies

ALA Member

Zach Rutland 

Maggie Schreiner

Amy McDonald

Syracuse University Libraries

ALA member

Sean Juroviesky 

Nike Desis

Teen/Tween Services Librarian

Benjamin Albritton

Stanford Libraries 

ALA member, RBMS member 

Mariah Ralston

ND Chapter Councilor

ND co-chair LGBTQ2S+ Committee

Rachel Caldwell

Librarian

Julie Moore

California State University, Fresno

ALA/CORE member

Jesse Erickson 

Lara Little

Julia Gardner 

Cornell University Library 

Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez

UC Irvine

Michael Pasternak

Harvard Library

Andrea

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Matt Morrison

Public Services Librarian - Tarrant County College

Andrew Wertheimer, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor, LIS Program University of Hawaii at Manoa

Former ALA Chapter Councilor 

Bianca Phipps

Art Institute of Chicago

ALA Student Member

Jen Waller

Librarian

ALA Member

Anna Lawrence

Branch Manager

ALA Member

Sarah Hertel-Fernandez 

Public Librarian in Massachusetts 

ALA member 

Carolyn Cook

ALA Member

Mary Rinato Berman

ALA member

Dr. Jo Phillips

RUSA CODES Exec Board Secretary

RUSA Notable Books Council Vice-Chair

ALSC Org Effect. Co-Chair

Ruth Thomas

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Scott Walter

ALA Life Member

Mary Grace Kosta

Archivist, Society of American Archivists member

Danya Leebaw

University of Minnesota

ALA member

Emily Lofquist 

Youth Librarian

Alicia C Phillips 

Retired Librarian 

Lauren McDaniel

ALA member

Sue Luftschein

Archivist

Lane Goldszer

Librarian UCLA, ALA Member

Allison Trumble

Librarian

Kathy Gaynor

Librarian

Ramin Naderi

ALA Councilor At Large

Deborah Yun Caldwell

Alyssa V. Loera 

J Paul Getty Trust 

Miriam Medow

Nadia Nasr

ALA/RBMS member

Terri Beth Ledbetter 

ALA Member 

Elijah Enos

Reference & Instruction Librarian, CSU Bakersfield

Programming Chair, Film & Media Round Table

[no name given]

Children's Librarian 

KT Beer

Mateo Campos-Seligman

Tara Severns

Windward Community College Library 

Stephen Lane

Librarian

Shannon Gile

Deb Schiff 

Archivist

ALA member 

Randi Hawkins (she, her)

ALA member

Lisa Norberg

The Cooper Union 

Lucien Baskin

CUNY Graduate Center and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Mikayla Wobrak

Librarian

Helene Gold

Adele Chase 

ALA Member 

Beth Knazook

Alison Ricker

Science Librarian Oberlin College

ALA Member

Kathy Lester

School Librarian

ALA Councilor At Large

Tyler Dzuba

Former ALA Councilor, former LLAMA President

Jen Bonnet

Julia Skinner, PhD

Author, former librarian

Hannah O'Daniel McCallon

Dr. Dan Barron

ALA member since 1975

School of Information Science, University of South Carolina

Janice Greenberg 

ALA Member, Member of ALA Subcommittee to Condemn White Supremacy & Fascism, Former ALA Councillor.

Nicholas A. Brown

Chair, ALA Public Awareness Committee (2023/24)

Shelley Kappeler

ALA Member, Florida

Megan A. Brooks

Librarian

Anthony Cocciolo

Pratt Institute School of Information

ALA member

Gabriel Mckee

New York University

ALA member 

Rebecca Graebner

Children & Youth Services

ALA Member

Michael Golrick 

Long-time ALA Member

Maria Falgoust 

Librarian, International School of Brooklyn and ALA member 

nicholae cline

Indiana University

ALA/ACRL member

Amanda Wyatt Visconti

University of Virginia

Alicia Deal

ALA member

Michael Bradford

Wayne State University

ALA Member

Elizabeth Hobart

Penn State University Libraries

Lesley Cano

Amy Hermon

School Librarian

ALA Member

Dr. Sandra Hughes Hassell

YALSA Past President 

Romel Espinel

Stevens Institute of Technology

700 signatories

Laura Palumbo

ALA member

John Richey

Cindi Blyberg

University of Kentucky Libraries

ALA member 

Shari Maurer

Literary Agent

Sujei Lugo 

ALA Member

Sharon M. Lawler

ALA Member

Hilda Weisburg

AASL Liaison to the New Jersey School Library Association

Rachael Wettenstein

Librarian 

Victoria Delaney 

Charissa Powell

University of Delaware

Amy Seto Forrester

ALA & ALSC Member

Jo Ann Murphy

ALA Member since 1995

Tara Shiman

Librarian

Scott Vrieze

Executive Director 

Metropolitan Library Service Agency

Michael P. Sauers

ALA Member

Lauren Antolino

ALA Member

Miriam Matteson

Kent State University

Christi Farrar

ALA Member

Winona McMorrow

Librarian

Scoob DeStefano

Library Clerk

Max Bowman

Colby College Libraries 

ALA Member 

Sara Rottger

Teen Services Librarian, MA

Debbie Rabina

Pratt Institute, School of Information 

Isabel Planton

ALA member

Librarian, Indiana University Bloomington

Justin Lee Termini

Librarian

Lisa Bakanas

ALA and AASL member

NJASL member, past president 

Almy Landauer

Becca Tibbitts

Processing Associate | MIT Department of Distinctive Collections 

Robbin Friedman

Head of Children's Services, Chappaqua Library

ALSC Fiscal Officer

Hope Donovan Rider

ALA member, incoming chair CORE Committee on Cataloging: Children's and Youth Materials

Thomas Hyry

Harvard University

ALA Member

Christopher Vongsavath

Library Associate

kimberly wiggins

Librarian

Jay Rosen 

Brooklyn Public Library 

ALA Member

Joyce Valenza

ALA Member

Associate Professor, Rutgers University SC&I

Frank Cervone

ALA Member

Hannah Houser

Recent University of Washington MLIS Grad

PNLA Member

Marxist Lesbian

Brian Smith

Librarian, not an ALA member

Susan Polos

School Librarian, Greenwich (CT) Country Day School

ALA Member

Shilpa Jacobie

Reference Librarian in Massachusetts and MLIS student

ALA Member

Anna Ring

ALA and AASL member 

Amy Penwell

ALA Member

Alex R. Hodges, EdD, MLS

Harvard Graduate School of Education

ALA & ACRL member

Kevin Nguyen

Librarian

April M. Hathcock 

NYU Libraries

ALA member 

Former ALA Councilor-at-large

Laura Brownstein

ALA member

Sara Brown

Barbara Jaindl

ALA member

Bergis Jules

Shift Collective

Rachel Door

Selwa Shamy

ALA Member

Kelly Webber

School Media Specialist

Matt Balik 

City College of New York, CUNY

Alec B. Chunn

ALA Member

Francesca Alfano 

Archivist 

Brita Zitin

ALA Member

Marissa Friedman

University of California, Berkeley

Chilly William F. Heinz

Melissa Beuoy

ALA member

Abby Garnett

Brooklyn Public Library

Mary Haltom

Youth Services Librarian, Texas

ALA Member

Lillian MacKnight

ALA Member

Amy Ojserkis

Atlantic County Institute of Technology, YALSA Symposium 2023, Task Force Chair

Howard Besser

Library Educator

ALA member

Holly Skir

Librarian 

ALA member

Lauren Comito

Former ALA Councilor

Josh Zink 

Illinois Heartland Library System 

Stephanie Sendaula

LibraryLinkNJ

ALA Member

Jennifer Spanier

Library Director, Blake Memorial Library

ALA Member

Rebecca Starr

Librarian, Portland Public Library

Ashlan Christensen

Denver Public Libraries

ALA Member

Lindsay Davis

Faculty Librarian, Merced College

ALA member

Anne Bahde

ALA/RBMS member

Zoey Colglazier

UW-Madison

Henry Handley

ALA member

Cesar Reyes

Cal Poly Pomona library 

Ellen Perleberg

UNC-Chapel Hill

ALA Member

Pacific Northwest Library Association Member

Kaitlin Kehnemuyi

North Carolina State University

ALA Member 

Raminta Moore

Librarian, Portland, ME

Nadine Anderson

Senior Associate Librarian, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Anne Olsen

Librarian, University of British Columbia

Chloe Van Stralendorff

Visual Resources Curator, Reed College

Brian Harrington

Librarian

Mimosa Shah

Associate Curator

Schlesinger Library

Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Lori M. Miller

Former ALA Member

Nitzah Winter

MLIS student

Carmi Dearing

Library Associate

Prudence Doherty

ALA member

David Sutherland

Niles Coalition

No official, Emily is a supporter of our #SaveNilesLibrary campaign.

Kelly Depin

Hyannis Public Library, Massachusetts

ALA Member

Jennifer DeVito

Stony Brook University

Karen Snow

ALA Member

Professor, School of Information Studies, Dominican University

Stacy Snyder

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld

Senior Library Technician

Portland Public Library

Portland, Maine

Grace Chasuk

Public library worker

Kim Coletta

Social Studies Teacher

Nicole Pagowsky

ALA member

Ann Liu

ALA member

Lily Kosmicki

Librarian

Ellis Koop

800 signatories

Leslie Chudnoff

Los Angeles Public Library, Retired

ALA Member

Alyssa Berger

Research & Instruction Librarian 

University of Washington Libraries 

Alma Ramos-McDermott

ALA Member

Owen Leonard

Librarian

Krista Lindhard

Corina Bardoff

Public Librarian

ALA Member

Christine Salek

MA-LIS student, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Emily Feiner 

Ray Lockman

Consultant, librarian

Rebecca Greenlee 

Education Justice Project, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Karen Van Drie

International School of Myanmar

Stewart Fritz

Ryan McCrory

Library Director

ALA Member

Starr Hoffman

ALA/ACRL Member 

Value of Academic Libraries member 

B. M. Watson

PhD., University of British Columbia iSchool | Homosaurus | CNM Taskforce American Psych. Assoc.

Ian Clark

Academic Librarian, UK

Kim Pittman 

University of Minnesota Duluth

ALA member

Charlotte Malerich

Arlington Public Library

Member, Virginia Library Association

Greta Treistman

Librarian, Seattle Colleges

Abigail Mortimer 

UCLA MLIS program, ALA organization student member

Maria Atilano

ALA member and co-chair of ACRL ULS Marketing Committee

Stacey Wicksall

ALA Member 

Hannah Whitman Clement

Santa Clara County Library District

Youth Services Librarian

ALA Member

Megan Kinney

Librarian, City College of SF

Alana Kumbier

Librarian

ALA Member

Gail Murray

Librarian, Smith College

ALA Member

Nicole Thomas

lawrence maminta

Library Worker

MSLC SMD Chair, Southwest US Region

Leona Vittum-Jones

Librarian, ALA Member

Jill Hurst-Wahl

Member, American Library Association 

M'issa Fleming

New Orleans Public Library

member of the Rainbow Roundtable and YALSA

Adolfo R. Tarango

ALA member

Faith Charlton

Princeton University Library 

Aline Brandauer 

Independent Scholar 

Carina Gonzalez

New Jersey Library Association President

Linde M. Brocato

University of Miami

Nicole A Casner

ALA Member

Megan Price

Brenna Levitin

MS LIS 2021, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Former Library Trustee,Wilbraham Public Library

Lisa Krok

ALA Member

Lorenzo Hinojosa 

Christine M. Moeller

University of Washington iSchool

ALA member

Kathleen McCook

ALA Member

Abigail Ryan

ALA Member

Nicole Askin

Librarian

Loriene Roy

Distinguished Service Professor Emerita

ALA President 2007-2008

Yvonne Kester

Librarian, State University of New York

Kathryn Vela

Sarah Wade

Getty Research Institute

Gwendolyn D. Reese

Brooks School

ALA Member

Molly Hemphill

Librarian, UCLA

Ron McColl

Special Collections Librarian; West Chester University

Robin Nyzio, MLIS

ALA Member

Beatrice Canales

ALA Member

KT Lowe 

Academic Instructional librarian

Joyce Meggett 

Writer

Ryan Acosta-Fox

Arden Kirkland

Hailley Fargo

Northern Kentucky University

Josh Neff

Alexander Chee

Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College 

Roy Perez

Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Becca Quon

ALA Member

Adrienne Pruitt

Archivist, Tufts University

Jill Scarson

ALA Member

James M. Donovan

James K. Teliha

Dean of the Library 

Utica University 

ALA Member

Leilani Dawson

Manuscript Collections Archivist, Univ. of HI - Manoa Library

ALA member

Lisa Mix

Baharak Yousefi 

Librarian, Simon Fraser University 

Sam Helmick

ALA Executive Board

Iowa Library Association President

ALA Member

Janet Woodward

Claire V Gordon

ALA member

Catherine Besteman 

Anthropologist

Colby College

Millie Gonzalez

Megan Kocher 

Librarian

University of Minnesota Libraries

Sara Borden

ALA member 

Steven Kelly

Librarian in KCMO and ALA Member

Danielle Reynolds 

ALA member

Elissa Laitin

Elaine Tai

Alice Goldfarb

Daisy Benson

University of Vermont

Cassandra Morris

ALA Member

Nancy Sims

Librarian at the University of Minnesota

ALA Member (?)

Amy Kellman

ALA/ALSC Member

Meredith McGill

Professor, English Department; Rutgers University 

Judy Looby 

Retired librarian and now a trustee 

Kelsey Smith

Freelance MLIS Researcher 

Rogue Librarian

Ann K.D. Myers

Senior Rare Books Cataloger, Stanford University

ALA Member

Stephanie Williams

Librarian

Jessica Werner

Lucretia Baskin

ALA member

Jeffrey Eggleston

Adult Services Librarian

Laurel Schwaebe

Burkely Hermann

Metadata Librarian

Susan Chute

Former librarian at NYPL

former ALA member

Robert Sage

Bill Dobbs

Publisher, The Dobbs Wire - Criminal (in) justice news

Angela Hackstadt

ALA Member

900 signatories

Christopher Hanlon

Professor, Arizona State University 

Erin Elzi

Former chair of the Web Production Subcommittee within the ALA Continuing Education Committee 

Shauna Scholl

Executive Director, Mattituck-Laurel Library

ALA Member

Jessica Brangiel

ALA Member

Jackie Cundieff, MLS

ALA Member since 2011

Librarian 

Elizabeth England

Judi Moreillon, PhD

Author/Consultant 

Active Member in the ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table

Lisa Carney

Sarah Spira

Librarian, Groton Free Public Library 

Melissa A. Hofmann

Rider University 

Carol A. Leibiger

Professor/ALA Member

Emily M. Colucci 

ALA Member 

Bean Yogi

Seattle Public Library

AFSCME Local 2083 steward

ALA member

Kathleen Ellis

Retired ALA/AASL

Lyns Runyan

Librarian at Seattle Public Library

Anna Ferri

Evidence Synthesis Librarian, CSU Libraries

ALA Member

Susan Wainscott

ALA Member

Jack Phoenix

2022-23 co-chair GNCRT Convention Committee 

Jeannette Ho

Texas A&M University Libraries

member of ALA Core 

Allison Chomey

ALA Member

Julie Judkins

Archivist, ALA / RBMS Member

Kelly Green

Retired Librarian 

Las Vegas, Nevada 

Douglas King

Reaching Across Illinois Library System

Nora Almeida 

Librarian 

Anna Lynch

Library Assistant

Fargo Public Library

Micah Kehrein

ALA and PLA member 

Saorsa M Stevens

Cecelia Lasley

ALA Member

Elizabeth Freeman 

Professor of English, University of California, Davis 

River Freemont

Associate Archivist, Whitman College

Devon Murphy

Joanna Messer Kimmitt

Director of Library Programs & Services, Cabrillo College

ALA Member

Misha Stone

Kimberly Peterson

Student member of ALA, ALSC, PLA, OLA, WLA

University of Washington MLIS student

Lauren Ray

Librarian, University of Washington

Brittney Bergholm

Librarian

ALA Member

Chapulina Ramos

Caitlin Wheeler

Library Supervisor

MLIS student University of Washington

Mick O'Dwyer

Librarian

Melissa Runnels

MLIS student, University of Washington

Graduate Assistant, Open Scholarship Commons, UW Libraries

Raya Samet

University of Michigan-Dearborn Mardigian Library

ALA member 

Frederick Nesta

LIS faculty/ALA Member

Amy Marie Cantley

Librarian and ALA Member

Lauren Smith

Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

Jonathan H. Harwell

ALA member

Ned Potter 

University of York

Penelope DeJournett 

President,  Friends of the Library,  Boone County,  Arkansas 

Lori Birrell

University of Delaware

Erin Robinson

ALA Student Member

Gayle O'Hara 

Rachel Vacek

University of Michigan

ALA Member

Junior Tidal

New York College of Technology, CUNY

Josh Redd

Paola Ferate

Librarian

Joseph Ketner

Katie Dunne

ALA Member 

School Librarian

Joan Weeks

ALA Councilor-at-large

S. Schwartz C.R. Kendall

ALA Member

Amanda Oetzel

ALA Member

Anne Cong-Huyen

University of Michigan

Gerhard Bissels

ALA international member

Lauren Seegmiller

Denver Public Library

Dartmouth Medal Co-Chair

Denver Public Library Workers United

Sara Hruska

MLIS Student, University of Washington

Anna Howitt

Joe Lollo

MLIS Student

University of Washington

Austin Stroud

Carol Perryman

LIS educator

Carolyn Martin

NNLM Region 5

ALA Member

John Wallace 

Member-at-Large

Executive Board, NJLA 

Andrea Puglisi

ALA Member

Joseph Hudak

Librarian

Cathy Camper

Author and Librarian

Jennifer Lau Bond

ALA Member

Erin Davison

Youth Services Librarian

Norwich Public Library

Kelly Kress

Archivist and ALA member

Candy Lau

ALA Member

Holly Clawges

ALA Member

David Kaslow

Not affiliated, but book (and democracy) lover

Aubrey Mullenix

Archivist

Lex Van Horn

Washington ALA Member

University of Washington MLIS Student

K.R. Roberto

John Clexton

Library Director, Gladwin County District Library, ALA Member

Kathleen Imhoff

ALA member

Past President Public Library Systems Section

Erik Andrew Hoover

Independent Research Professional

Amanda Lanthorne

Archivist, San Diego State University

Leslie Harka

University of Washington iSchool

Kate Pohjola Andrade

Woodlands Library Cooperative

ALA Member

Beth Blakesley

Associate Dean of Libraries, Washington State University; ALA member

Liz Caringola

Sarah Hood 

Reference and Instruction Librarian 

Carmine Bell

Professor Emerita

Pasco Hernando State College

Lynn Lorenz

Children's Librarian, Seattle Public Library

Tammy Lau

Jennifer Jordan

ALA support staff member

GNCRT Creators Get Carded Chair

Leslie Kahn 

Former chairperson of what is now the Rainbow Book Awards 

Robin Maddalena

Librarian, Dartmouth College 

Acadia Roher

Christopher Taylor

Public Librarian

Jess deCourcy Hinds

Librarian, DoE NYC and Adjunct Lecturer, Queens College MLS program

Cynthia Tobar

Bronx Community College Archives

Caroline Gil Rodríguez

1,000 signatories!

Judd Karlman

ALA Member

Tracee Yawger

Retired Librarian, Pennsylvania 

Wendy Holliday

ALA Member

Weber State University

Jamie Carlstone

Authority Metadata Librarian, Northwestern University

Axa Mei Liauw

UCLA

Catie Huggins 

Northwestern

Library assistant 

Michael B. Klein

Northwestern University Libraries

Hope Svenson

University of Washington MLIS student

Abby Dover

Northwestern University

ALA Member

Bethan Ruddock 

Patricia Valdovinos

Librarian III

ALA Councilor-at-Large

Simon Bowie

Open Source Software Developer, Centre for Postdigital Cultures (and former librarian)

Carolyn J. Brown

Seton Hall Law Library

Noreen Whysel

CUNY New York City College of Technology

Erica Findley

ALA Member

Multnomah County Library

Kat Steiner 

Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford

Ellen Kaufman

Retired law librarian; adjunct librarian, Baruch College.

Genevieve Innes

Instructor-Librarian, Rider University 

Kelly Barnhill 

Author 

Chelsea Spear 

Library paraprofessional 

Morwenna Peters

ARLIS UK and Ireland

Christina Sharpe 

York University 

jean amaral

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Yoonhee Lee

Siobhan Britton

Librarian, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London 

Rebecca Baumann

Librarian, Indiana University

ALA/ACRL member

Catherine Romatowski

Nancy Lawrence

Ed Garcia

ALA member

Susan Nilsson

Librarian, Santa Cruz Public Libraries

Stephanie Margolin

Librarian, Hunter College CUNY

Kate and Ailsa Hermann-Wu 

Emilie Staat, MFA, and Lee Abbott, PhD

Library Associates at NOPL and co-chairs of New Orleans City Workers Organizing Committee

Cedate Shultz

Public Services Librarian  Omaha Metro Area

Sara Habein

Montana resident

Sam Aston

University of Manchester 

Jennifer Dekker

Cassandra Petersen

Public Library Employee

Carmen Ruiz 

Youth Services Librarian 

Samantha Levin

Forest Lisinski

Karen O'Brien 

ALA Member

Michael Mele

Jennie Kermode

Author

Clara Hendricks 

ALA member 

Toby Greenwalt 

Hope Yeats

Children's Librarian

King County Library System 

WLA Member since 2012

Eric Hellman

Carol Fazioli

Jenny Kobiela-Mondor

ALA Member

Faith St John

Argyle Free Library

Acadia Roher

Archivist, UMBC

Alexandre Couturier

Academic Librarian in France

Emily Grayson

Librarian, Seattle Public Library

Beth Evans

Brooklyn College Library of the City University of New York

Jill Cirasella

CUNY Graduate Center

Mary R. Voors

ALA member

Michael Santangelo

ALA Member

Librarian

Karen Downing

ALA Member

Natalia Estrada

University at Buffalo (SUNY)

ALA/ACRL Member

Michele Lauer-Bader

ALA member

Kylie Peters

Librarian, ALA Member

Deborah Tomaras

ALA Member

Kathryn Lage

Jonas Kromer Yela

ALA Member

Jaena Rae Cabrera 

Reginald Harris 

ALA Member

Carina Langstraat

Adult Services Librarian in WA state

Ryan Randall

ALA Member

Kimberly Beeman

Librarian, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore 

ALA member 

Claire Lovell 

South Central Regional Library Council

Karthika Gopalakrishnan 

Fiona Shea

J Richardson

Former librarian, UK

Peter Smith

Eva Anderson

Librarian, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 

Katherine Davidsen

Astrid Krediet 

School librarian 

Joanne Wilson

Teacher Librarian

Joanna White

Paul Newnham

Sarah Hammond

Jess Haigh, Academic Librarian, Leeds Beckett University

Carolyn Bennett Glauda

Librarian & ALA Member

Kim Dare

Director, YALSA

Member, ALA

Clara del Junco, PhD

MILIS student, University of Toronto

Amanda Folk

ALA Member

ACRL SLILC Chair

LRRT Member at Large

Sheridan Sayles

Archivist

Kimberly Hughes

Librarian, Miami Dade College

Tia D Korger

Rachel Makarowski

Miami University

Brittany O'Neill

ALA Member

Julie Kliever

Head of Collections Services - Providence College

ALA Member

Megan Graff

Teacher-librarian 

Brendan Edwards

ALA Member

Daisy Domínguez Singh

University of Maine

Sarah Sanfilippo

ALA member

Asst. Dir. for Access Services, RI College

Claire Stewart

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

ALA Member: ACRL, Film & Media RT, Intellectual Freedom RT

Rachel Searcy

Archivist, New York University

Amber Seely

ALA member

1,100 signatories

Caitlin Rizzo

Jessica Ryan

Smith College

F. Elizabeth Nicholson

ALA member

Jane Stimpson

Massachusetts Library System

ALA Member

Michael Handis

Associate Professor/Associate Librarian, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Jennifer Castle

Instruction and Engagement Librarian, Tennessee State University

ALA member

Sophie Hoyt

MLIS student at UMD

Sharon Hawkes

Director, Nahant Public Library

Anaya Jones

ALA Member

Kelly Fullerton

ALA member

Scout Noffke

Reference & Administrative Specialist, Rauner Special Collections Library

Catherine Preston-Schreck

Co-Director, Thorndike Library, College of the Atlantic

Diane E. Bockrath

Archivist; ALA member

Elizabeth Hartsig

Senior Library Associate

Portland Public Library

Joe Hardenbrook

ALA member

Laura Cleary

University of Maryland Libraries

Toben Traver

Dartmouth College Library

Emily Zerrenner

Salisbury University, ALA & ACRL member

Tara Custer

Librarian 

member of ALA

Lydia Elias

Treshani Perera

ALA member

Hilary Thompson

ALA member

2022-2023 Chair, RUSA STARS

Kiley Jolicoeur

Syracuse University Libraries

Andrea Belair

Librarian/Archivist

Betsy Crenshaw

Librarian, CUNY

Amy Wickner

Celeste Brewer

Archivist

Gregory W. Dachille

Bunker Hill Community College

ALA Member

Lindsay Matts-Benson

University of Minnesota Libraries

ALA Member

Donna Davey

CUNY Graduate Center

ALA Member

Emily Souza, MSLIS

Youth Services Librarian, Rockport Public Library

Lynne Stahl

Wesleyan University

ALA Member

Beth Johns

Member

Kae Bara Kratcha

Librarian

Christie Lutz

Rutgers University, ALA member, RBMS member

Boyd Bellinger

University of Illinois at Chicago

ALA Member

Willow Johanna Leganza

Adult Services Librarian, Carmel Clay Public Library

Valerie O'Neal

Circulation and Reference Manager

Caroline County Library

ALA Member

Peggy Griesinger

ALA Member

Adriana Blancarte-Hayward

ALA Councilor At-Large

Ali Coleman

Member

Glen J. Benedict

ALA Member

Rainbow Round Table and Intellectual Freedom Round Table Member

Timothy Ryan Mendenhall

Columbia University Libraries

ALA Member

Cheri Campbell

Librarian, ALA/PLA member

Anna Boutin-Cooper

Westfield State University

ALA Member

Jessica Dai

University of Delaware

ALA Member

Chris Lindstrom

Ellen Lutz

ALA Member

Health Sciences Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Misty Alvaro

Materials Manager, Columbus Metropolitan Library

ALA Member

Randy Ebert

Public Service Manager; Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County (OH)

ALA Member

Crystal Rodgers

Archivist, Boston Public Library

Marie Elia

Archivist for Special Collections, University at Buffalo / Society of American Archivists member

Lena Newman

Librarian, Columbia University

Chelsea McCoy

Grand Valley State University Libraries

Jay Gruber

Saptarshi Lahiri

Youth Services Librarian, Liverpool Public Library 

ALA Member 

Elizabeth Parker

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives, Cornell University

Andrew K. Pace

ALA member, ALA At-Large Councilor, ALA Committee Chair

Carolina Hernandez

ALA member

Naomi House

INALJ

MaryAlice Wade

Librarian, Fort Hays State University

ALA/ACRL member

Annalise Welte

Ellen halliday

Support staff, member Brooklyn Library Guild Local 1482, DC37

Brooklyn Public Library

Brandon West

Development Coordinator, Independence Public Library, Independence, KS

M. Lynn Jacobs, MLIS

Librarian

ALA Member

J. Silvia Cho

CUNY Graduate Center

ALA member

Theo Wolf

Reserves Coordinator 

Emerson College library

Alexandra Wingate

PhD student, Indiana University

ALA member

Eleanor Surridge

Teacher Librarian at the International School of Ulaanbaatar

ALA Member

Courtney Walsh

Stevens Institute of Technology

Sara Piasecki

Archivist

ALA Member since 1992

Melissa OSickey

Sophia Dahab

Library Company of Philadelphia

ALA Member

Mona Reynolds

ALA Member

Linda Shulman

M. Lynn Jacobs, MLIS

Mary Mann

Archives Librarian at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

Brigid McCreery

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Genevieve Kieffer

Deanna Howard

Librarian

ALA Member

Angie Kelleher

Alma College Library

ALA member

Tobi Hines

Associate Librarian, Cornell University Library

ALA Member

Necia Parker-Gibson

Long-term member of ALA, ACRL, LIRT, STS, etc.

Amber Emery

Children's Librarian

Alycia Sellie

CUNY Graduate Center

Jana Gowan

ALA/ACRL/RBMS Member

Joy Robinson

ALA Member

Jenny Swadosh

The New School and IBT Local 1205 Member

Tricia Dean

AMA member

Gina Murrell

New York Public Library

Angie Rundle

ALA member

Emily Schmidt

Columbia University Libraries

Olivia Patterson

ALA member

Jehoiada Calvin

Ruth Tillman

Penn State Libraries

Katherine Cordes

ALA Member

Louise LoBello

Franklin & Marshall College Library - Archives & Special Collections

ALA/RBMS member

Davida Scharf

New Jersey Institute of Technology 

ALA member

Emma Clarkson

New York Public Library

Allison Knight

ALA and ALSC member

Jessica Critten

University of Colorado Denver

1,200 signatories

Sarah Kantor

University of Tennessee Chattanooga

ALA Member

Katrina Fenlon

University of Maryland

Helen Linda

Former NETSL President and VLA Board Member

James Edward Malin

Engineering and Science Librarian at the Cooper Union Library, ACRL Member

Henny Tasker

University of Michigan Library

Gretchen Scronce

Research & Instruction Librarian, College of Charleston

Gina Petersen

Northwestern University

Karen Munro

Former president, ACRL

Enrique Rivera

Multnomah County Library

Ciara Kehoe

librarian at PCCLD 

member of ALA

Becky Sorice

Librarian

Deirdre Joyce

Syracuse University Libraries

Craig Guild

Librarian, Connecticut State Community College

Elizabeth Killingsworth

ALA Member

Monique Threatt

Librarian

FMRT, ALA Member

Rebeca Jefferson

Cheryl Erenberg

Librarian 

Amy Dennis

Youth Services Director, Tom Green County Library

Andrew French

VP of Product at TIND

Beth Fuchs

Colorado State University Pueblo

ALA/ACRL/LIRT member

Ken Irwin

Miami University Libraries

ALA Member

Gina Collett

ALA Member

Lora Ericson

ALA member

Loren Mindell

Access Services Librarian Chicago State U.

RUSA STARS Legislation and Licensing Committee Member

Caitlin Plovnick

Julia Maxwell

ALA Member 

Rutgers University Libraries 

Jessica Grzegorski

ALA member

Arielle Rambo

Helen Power

ALA Member

Winston Pei

MLIS Student, University of Alberta School of Library & Information Studies

Esther Ellis

The Library Company of Philadelphia

Taylor Hunsberger

Member of ALA, NY

Andrea Baer

ALA member

Jill Conte

NYU Libraries

Rachel Ruiz-Beckham

Rachel Kramer

Academic Librarian

ALA Member

Carol Rempel

ALA Member

Zakiya Collier

Gabrielle Garcia

ALA member

Spectrum Scholarship recipient 2023-2024 

Brett Barrie

Special Collections Metadata Librarian

Syracuse University

Ginny Boehme

ALA member

Phoebe Stein

School of Visual Arts Library

Martha McTear

ALA/ACRL/RBMS member

Linnea Minich

University of the South

Annie Tang

University Archivist, Chapman University

Patrick Hoecherl

Utah Library Association President

Julie C. Swierczek

ALA Member

Kimberly Springer

Rebecca K. Friedman

Princeton University Library

ALA Member

Tyler McTigue

Trustee/Board Member - CHUH Public Library

Tamara Garrard

University of Washington / Edmonds College

Amanpreet Kaur

Former ALA Member

Eugenia Beh

MIT Libraries

ALA member

Charlotte M. Johnson

Travis Hyzak

ALA member

Ahniwa Ferrari

Associate Dean of the Library | The Evergreen State College

Washington Library Association Past-Prez

Beth Posner

ALA RUSA STARS

Katherine Tucker

Librarian

Rory Brown

Chicago Public Library

Megan Watson

Librarian, University of Washington

Daryl Bergman

Archivist and Librarian

Liz Cassidy

Robbin Degeratu

ALA Councilor, Pennsylvania Chapter

Laura Mina

ALA Member

Michele Combs

Board of Directors, La Fayette (NY) Public Library

Julia Dudley

Access Services Supervisor

Syracuse University Libraries - Special Collections Research Center

Lily Schwarz

MLIS Student and GA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Lauren Moore

ALA member

Rob Morrison

ALA member

Kate Slauson

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kim Maxwell

Librarian

ALA Member

Carrie Banks

Inclusive Services at Brooklyn Public LIbrary, PLA, RUSA member, Past President of ASGCLA

Amy Shipley

Librarian and graduate of Montana State University

Sarah Kurpiel

ALA Member

Cynthia Johnson

UC Irvine; Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Past-President

Samantha Garlock

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

ALA Member

Michael McNichol

Compliance Consultant, NorQuest College

Wanda Marsolek

Librarian

University of Minnesota

Jay Colbert

Library Director, Longy School of Music of Bard College;

2018 ALA Emerging Leader

Michael Deering

Graduate Center, CUNY

ALA Member

Lucy Campbell

Electronic Resources Librarian, San Diego State University

Angel Diaz

ALA Member

Hannah Wang

Educopia Institute

Jaime Michele Henderson

Accessioning Archivist, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Rian Debner

ALA Member

sam hidde tripp

Fresno State Library

ALA Member

Angie Beiriger

Reed College

ALA & ACRL Member

Marcella Tam

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Diana Marques

School Librarian and ALA member

Keven Jeffery

Librarian, San Diego State University, ALA Member

Sarah French

Librarian 

ALA Member

Thera Webb

Women@MIT Project Archivist

Dana Thimons

Librarian

Lauren Robinson 

C. L. Quillen

Library Director 

ALA member

Christina V Fidler

UC Berkeley

Daniel Hackborn

MLIS Candidate

University of Alberta

ALA member

Alesia McManus

RUSA Division Councilor

Anne Scanlon

Alexis Gordon

Librarian

1,300 signatories

catherine lockmiller

Librarian

Margaret Dodson

Brazosport College, ALA Member 

Kip M Roberson

Director of Library Services

Teton County (Wyoming) Library

Je Salvador

ALA Member

Joe Gagnon

Lillian Whithaus

Allison Benkwitt

Librarian

Jonathan Greenberg

NYU Libraries

Margaux Morrone

Geneva Public Library

ALA Member

S. Roemer

Giacomo Bianchino

Ph.D Candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College

Rhonda K Gould

ALA Councilor-at-Large

Christina Gavin (she/her)

New York City Department of Education, school librarian

UFT, NYSUT, AFT, NEA, IWW

Emily Witkowski

Member-at-Large

Executive Board, NJLA 

Elaine Jones Hayes

Special Collections Librarian - Laramie County Library

Cheyenne, Wyoming

Sofia Tort

Marxist lesbian

Matt Driscoll

United Federation of Teachers

Christine Perkins

ALA member

Alexandra Cauley

ALA member

Glenda Insua

University of Illinois, Chicago

ALA Member

Jennifer Aprias

ALA Member

Public Librarian

Alan Leafy Vaughn Jr

Public Services Manager, Sweetwater County Library

Samantha Hartwig 

Erin Stalberg

ALA Member

Beth Carpenter

University at Buffalo

ALA & ACRL Member

Olivia Loeb-Mevorach

Librarian 

Liz Gilbert

Librarian 

ALA Member

Chris Bourg 

Director of MIT Libraries 

Jeremy Ferris

Sarah E. Sheehan

ALA Member

Kaetrena Davis Kendrick

Lisa Galletta

Assistant Director, Smith Public Library

Jane Singer

Librarian

Sarah Ann Adams

Metadata Specialist, New York Public Library

Rebekka Hanson

ALA / PLA / YALSA member

formerly on the YALSA Popular Paperbacks committee

Kate Wells

Curator, Providence Public Library 

Kilian Webster

Kevin Quirolo

1199SEIU Researcher

Dianne Weinthal

Library UX Designer

Beka Yang

Grants Coordinator, Providence Public Library

Megan Behrent

NYC College of Technology, CUNY

Noel Kopriva

Engineering Librarian

Kelsey Casci

Providence Public Library

Erin Kennedy

ALA member

AJ Robinson

Middle East Librarians Association

Katharine Dunn

MIT

Karina Andrus

ALA Member

Jill Baron

Librarian, filmmaker, and co-executive director of the SALALM

Lanham Bundy

General ALA  member

Jasmine Larkin

Archivist, UCLA Library

Suzanna Yaukey

H. Jack Martin

Providence Public Library

ALA/PLA Member

Laura Motley

Providence Public Library

Anna Robinson-Sweet

UCLA Department of Information Studies

Audra Eagle Yun

University of California, Irvine Special Collections & Archives  

Cathleen Miller

University of New England

ALA member

Hannah Whelan 

Documentation and Archives Director, Texas After Violence Project 

Jordan Goffin

Providence Public Library

Sara Smith

ALA member

Rae Hebron

Providence Public Library

Erin Burns

ALA Member

Sherese Card

MLIS Student 

Megan Hodge

Virginia Commonwealth University

Cheryl Gerken

Academic Librarian

ALA Member 

Tammy Johnson

ALA Member

Susan Dunn

ALSC, YALSA and ALA member for 25+ years

Gabbie Barnes

Public Librarian

Mark Hudson

ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)

Rebecca Fenning Marschall

Clark Library, UCLA

Raphael Sasayama

Getty Research Institute

Caroline Slama

Historic Germantown

Kristina J. Benson

Public Library Director-Retired 

Claire E. Cramer

Librarian

Julie N. Hornick

Florida Southern College

Allen Jones

The New School

ALA Member

Josie Laine Andrews, MLIS

Teacher Librarian

Nevada Union High School

ALA Member, YALSA Board of Directors

Kristin Freda

Director of Library Services, Bank Street College of Education

Jon Lavieri 

RIFLI/PPL

Maile Chung

Recent MLIS graduate!

Scarlet Galvan

Grand Valley State University Libraries

Elizabeth Edwards

Librarian, University of Chicago Library

Chloe Persian Mills

Robert Morris University

ACRL/ALA member

Chris Tanguay

Processing Archivist, MIT

Julie Dinger

Library Manager

University of Minnesota

Milena Seyed

Information Competency Librarian, 

College of the Sequoias, CA

ALA member, 18 years

Monica Maddaford

MLIS student

Emily Simmons

Eric Horwitz

YA Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library

ALA Member

Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott

NJASL president 2022-2023

Shira Pilarski

ALA Member

Chloe Ramos

GNCRT Member, Image Comics Book Market and Library Sales Manager

Mary Markland

Librarian, Oregon State University

ALA Member

Kim DeNero-Ackroyd

ALA Councilor at Large

Cindy Moore

Retired, library director Wyoming

Kate Jaggers

New Jersey Library Association, Past President

Patti Carlyle

Heights Library Board Trustee

Kaitlin Srader

Spectrum Scholar

Peter Allen-Lamphere

Member, American Federation of Teachers Local 2/UFT (MORE Caucus)

Rebecca Gourevitch

Archivist, UC Merced Library

Maddie Reynolds

Librarian, Cornell Prison Education Program 

1,400 signatories

Anna

Head of Special Collections & University Archives

San Diego State University

Anonymous

ALA Member

Denise Cathro

Retired School Library Media Specialist

Angel Truesdale

ALA Member

Alexandra Pratt

Public librarian, MLIS

ALA member 

Laurie Neuerburg

ALA Member

Sarah Horowitz

ALA Member, RBMS Chair 2023-2024

Katie Van Sleen

Public Library Worker

Liz Hamilton

Librarian, Northwestern University

Sabine Adrian

Sarah H. Smith

ALA Member and Former Councilor at Large

Niamh Wallace

University of Arizona Library

ALA member

Vincent Zalkind

Public Library Employee

Ryan Tombleson

University of Arizona Libraries

Lisa Martincik

University of Iowa

ALA Member

Jessica Miesner

ALA Member

Library Services Associate, University of Arizona Libraries

Kimberly Libby

Providence Public Library

Rina Hadziev 

Anthony Sanchez

University of Arizona

Kathryn Shaughnessy

Associate University Librarian, St. John's University 

ALA Member

Dez Alaniz

Director, Presidio Research Center, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation

Anna Lacy 

Haverford College 

Jean Sheviak

Retired Librarian

ALA Member

Diane Bliss

Public school LMS

Jessica Gambling

Archivist

Kate London

Teacher Librarian German European School Singapore

Diana Park

ALA Member

Jim Neal

Columbia University

ALA President 2017-18

ALA Honorary Member

Melissa Longhi

Librarian

CUNY Graduate Center

Kathryn Miller

Publishing Services Librarian

Doug Norris

Lead Teacher/Providence Public Library Education Dept

Also serve on Rhode Island Library Board

Stefana Breitwieser

Lizanell Boman

ALA Member

Chip Stewart

ALA Member

Ginny Wolter

Toledo Lucas County Public Library

Gertrude Evelyn Lampart, LCSW-R

Anna M. Madrigal 

Public Librarian

Former ALA Member 

Delaney Jorgensen

MSI student

University of Michigan

Rebecca Clark

Librarian

Gabriel Lopez

Member of GNCRT's Comiitee to Adress Bans & Challenges

Sam May

ALA Member

MC Brickell

ALA Member

Lynne Mancinelli

Public School Library Media Specialist, NJASL

Katherine Curtis

Librarian, King County Library System

ALA Member

Tom Twiss

Retired librarian and faculty emeritus, University of Pittsburgh

Miriam Neptune

Academic Librarian

ALA Member

Carolyn Jeziorski

ALA Member

Elementary Librarian, UNIS Hanoi, Vietnam

Eric Silberberg

CUNY Queens College

Kris Kasianovitz

UC Berkeley, IGS Library 

ALA GODORT member

Julia Robbins

Deputy Librarian | Municipal Library |NYC Department of Records and Information Services

Former ALA

Angelo Moreno

ALA member

John F. Anderies

Director, John J. Wilcox, Jr. Library and Archives at William Way LGBT Community Center

ALA Member

Ziba Pérez

California Chapter Councilor

Kiana Clark

Archivist 

Janine Guida

Victoria Smith 

Library science graduate 

Mary Abler

Bonnie Lafazan

Springfield Free Public Library (NJ)

Tom Angelo

elissa mondschein

Colleen Theisen

ALA member

ALA/ACRL/RBMS 

Katie Fraser 

University of Nottingham 

James Jacobs

ALA/GODORT member

Elizabeth Bevington

Librarian, New York Public Library

ALA Member

Henry Hollander

Der Nister Downtown Cultural Center (Los Angeles). 

Sasha Shlyamberg

Librarian

Alicia G. Vaandering

Student Success Librarian, University of Rhode Island

ALA Member

Louisa Lebwohl

Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library

Kiyoko Shiosaki

Librarian

Jezz Bold

Children's Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library 

Patricia Kishman-Smith

D A Dragnich

ALA Member

Gabriel Graña

Teacher Librarian (NC)

ALA Member 

Barbara Harvey 

Grand Valley State University, ALA HSIG

Laura England-Biggs

ALA Member

Judi Cheng

Cecelia Parks

ALA member

Patricia Guardiola

Amy Lau

Archivist, New York Public Library

Alex Smith

Library Specialist/Paraprofessional 

Isaiah West

Prince George‚ County Memorial Library System

ALA Member and Committee Chair

Andrew Worthington

UFT Delegate 

Emily Metcalf

Health Sciences Librarian

ALA Member

Jenna Bossert

Archivist

Joe Montibello

Debra Trogdon-Livingston

Librarian / CORE Access and Equity Leadership Team

Eileen Rourke

April Levy

Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger

Haverford College Libraries

Elizabeth Sanders

ALA Member, Rainbow Roundtable Member

Michelle Misner

New York Public Library

Emily Guthrie

Librarian

Library Company of Philadelphia

ALA member

Tiffany Day

Metadata & Catalog Librarian, Member of the ALA Rainbow Roundtable

Roland C Hansen

ALA and Rainbow RT member

Rachel D'Agostino

Library Company of Philadelphia

Julie Holden

ALA Member

Laura Starratt

Emory University

Chaz Carey

Rainbow Round Table Chair-Elect

Alvina Lai

Stephanie Johnson

ALA Member

Technology Librarian 

1,500 signatories

Emma Antobam-Ntekudzi

Reference & Instruction Librarian

City University of New York (BCC) 

Nanci M Hill

Chapter Councilor, Massachusetts

John Kromer

Associate University Librarian, New Jersey Institute of Technology

ALA Member

Gayle Schaub

Grand Valley State University

Alice Griffin

Brooklyn Public Library

Dee Bowers

Brooklyn Public Library

Jay Ruzicka

Sharon Farnel

University of Alberta Library

ALA member

Genna Duplisea

Sharon Baller

Member of NJASL

Jill Waycie

University of Illinois Chicago

Jessie Bond

ALA member

Tokunbo Adeshina

City University of New York

Sophia Ellis

Mary Crauderueff

Haverford College

Valen Werner

Ashley Bressingham

ALA & ALSC Member

Briana Moore

CUNY Bronx Community College 

Katie Zwick

Graduate of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation M.A. Program

Kelly Webster

Boston Public Library & American Indian Library Association member

Tayla Cardillo

ALA member

Eric Cohen

Librarian

Keturah Cappadonia

ALA NY Chapter Councilor

Karly Wildenhaus

New York Public Library

Rachel Hochberg

support staff, Haverford College Libraries

Deb Sica

Alameda County Library 

Public Library Association Division Councilor

Odile Harter

Harvard University

Nina Clements

ALA member

Andrea Schuba

ALA Member

Rigby Philips

Graduate Assistant, University of Maryland Libraries

Irina Savinetskaya

Syracuse University Libraries 

ALA member

Kevin Adams

Kerri Copus

ALA Member

Anne L Moore

Retired, UMass Amherst Libraries, Member ALA, RRT. 

Stephanie Bonjack

Head, Howard B. Waltz Music Library

University of Colorado Boulder

Catherine Lantz

ALA Member

Amanda Nelis

Library Assistant, Kennesaw State University

ALA Member

Christina Bevilacqua

Allie Stevens Gosselink

Library Director

ALA Member

JP Mongeau

University of Delaware, ALA Member

Jonathan Ratliff

ALA, Core, and ACRL Member

A P Crowley

Librarian

Sarah Rodriguez

ALA Member

Jessica Tai

Archivist

Janet T. O'Keefe

Gloria Coles Flint Public Library

RUSA RSS Board Member at Large

David Dollenmayer

Trustee of the Hopkinton Public Library, Hopkinton MA

Margaret Wagner

Stowe Free Library

ALA Member

Gayle Schechter

CLIR/DLF

Sherre Harrington

Social Responsibilities Round Table Action Council Member & Treasurer

Alexa Goff

Archivist, University of Oregon

Angel Román 

2009 Pratt SILS graduate

Jak Miller

Public Librarian

Thomas Lide

ALA Member

Lindsey Helfrich

ALA Member

Josephine Reyes

Amanda Vazquez

Iowa Chapter Councilor

Angela Shere

ALA member

Julie Bill

Systems Librarian

Kestrel Ward

Member, Committee chair

Laracarina Suarez

Special Collections and Archives Librarian 

Mount Saint Mary's University 

Chelsea Nesvig

University of Washington Libraries Union,

ALA Member

Tim Lozier

Rae-Anne Montague

Chicago State University

ALA Member

Caleb Del Rio

Academic library worker (no direct affiliation to ALA)

Annie Armstrong

Katie L.B. Henningsen

Duke University

ALA & ACRL Member

Laura McElfresh

Assistant Librarian, University of Minnesota

ALA Member

Carol McAuliffe

ALA Member

Liz Day

Emerging Technologies/Teen Librarian

ALA Member

Jeffra Bussmann

Cal State East Bay University Libraries

ALA member

Sophie Kenney

ALA member

Wren Pierce

Librarian at Grand Valley State University

Elizabeth Hunt

George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Jane Nichols

ALA member

Jasmine Shumaker

UMBC

ALA member

Joe Lee

ALA member

Debbie Morrow

ALA Member for 40 years

Paul J McDonough

University of Florida Libraries

Andrea Carter

retired librarian

Ellen Knudson

Curator for Book Arts, Special and Area Studies, University of Florida

Amy W. Dodson

Fox River Valley Public Library District

Rainbow Round Table Executive Board Member

ALA Member

Barrett Uhler

University of Florida Libraries

Evie Giaconia

LIbrarian

Veronica Milliner

ALA Member

Emily McElroy

University of Florida

Laura DeMarco

Beth Filar Williams

Oregon State University and ALA member 

Tiffany Esteban

Shaye Anis

MLIS Student at the University of Washington

Abbey Thompson

Mount Saint Mary's University-Los Angeles

Marjorie Bryer

Archivist, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Sara Ryan

Kris Johnson

ALA Member (32 continuous years)

Montana Library Association Member (since 2015)

Monica Rettig

Librarian, Brock University (Ontario, Canada)

Jules Shore

ALA Councilor-at-large

Laurie Bridges

Erika Long

ALA Chapter Councilor

Maria Lee

ALA Member

Spectrum Scholar

Rachel Fleming

ALA Member

Zander Zuniga

1,600 signatories

Joanna Thompson

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Susan Hiner

Academic librarian

Jessica Salinas

New York Public Library (RBMS member) 

Jessa Lingel

Associate Professor - University of Pennsylvania

Rion Berger

ALA member

Sharon Crotser-Toy

Director, St. Ignace Public Library, Michigan

Daniela Suzarte

University of Florida

ALA Member

Lauren Read

Librarian, Enoch Pratt Free Library

ALA, PLA, & SustainRT member

Warren Carter

Hopkinton Public Library

Hopkinton MA  

Trustee

Claire M. Eubanks

MLIS Student (UNCG)

Peter Z McKay

Member

Dana Bjorklund

Cleveland Institute of Art Library

Becky Spratford

La Grange [IL] Public Library Trustee, Librarian, and ALA Editions Author

Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm

ALA member

Kristina Olivares

Teacher Librarian - Canadian International School Singapore 

Stojana Popovska

Cyndi Robinson

Executive Director, Illinois Library Association

Vera Elwood

Head, Journalism Library, University of Missouri - Columbia

Arianna Schlegel

Vassar College

Caroline J. White

Archivist and ALA member

Christopher Duvall

Alameda County Library

Marijane White

Data and Research Engagement Librarian

Oregon Health & Science University Library

Cynthia Vrabel

YA Librarian 

Susan Moore

ALA member

Amanda Howard

University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections

Sarah Washburn

Evan Allen

Jenelle Johnson

University of Pittsburgh Library System

Carri Frola

Archivist, CSUN University Library

Heather Smedberg

ALA member

former chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS)

Sara Peden 

Staff member, University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries 

Luke Bohanon

PhD, UCLA Department of Information Studies 

Jenifer Holman

Hope College

ALA Member

Danielle Jones

ALSC Board of Directors

Leah Whitesel

MLIS Student, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Robert Derouen

Louisiana

Meredith Steiner

Children's Librarian, San Francisco Public Library

ALSC Board Member 2020-2023

Shevon Desai

ALA member

Stephanie M. Roach

Library Systems and Applications Developer, San Mateo County Community College District, ALA Member

Vince Garin

Systems Support Librarian

Maine InfoNet Collaborative - Maine State Library/University of Maine

Kristy Gale

Teen Services Librarian, Seattle WA

Maddy Gillette

Librarian (Los Angeles Public Library), ALA Member

Bill Dietz

Bard College

Julia Lane 

Writing Services Coordinator, Simon Fraser University Library 

Ellin Stiteler 

Mario Gonzalez

ALA Councilor-At-Large

Past Senior Trustee of the ALA Endowment

Past ALA Treasurer

Elizabeth Galoozis

ALA Member 

Amanda Brown

Tech clerk at the Buffalo and Erie County Library

Sorcha Sills

I'm an English teacher. 

Martina Xenia Baldi

G.W. Swicord

Library Technical Staff

Kerry Creelman

ALA member

Madeleine Wright

ALA and YALSA Member

Kay Gabriel

Stephanie Chace

Boston Public Library, Librarian - Nutritional Literacy Coordinator

Hazel McClure

Grand Valley State University

Ann Langone

Boston Public Library Professional Staff Association, MLSA/AFT

Morgan Howard

Boston Public Library

Claire Kelley

Seven Stories Press, Marketing Director and San Jose State MLIS student, ALA member

Joanne Endorf

University of Florida

Jessica Bitely

Boston Public Library

Dharma Sandvik

Kelsey Gallagher Mambach

Assistant Director of Libraries, Union College of Union County, NJ

Crystal Chen

ALA member

Eve Neiger

Lead Archivist, Boston Public Library

Allison Tamarkin Paller

Seven Stories Press

Angelina Carney

MSLIS

Rebekkah LaRue

Anthony Arnove, author, editor, and publisher

Nico Belott

ALA Member

Asbury Park Library

Molly Ledermann

Washtenaw Community College

ALA Member

Dory Klein

Celeste Bocchicchio-Chaudhri

Member

Courtney Brown

ALA Member

Eva L. Sotomayor

Seven Stories Press

Lizzy Walker

Wichita State University Libraries

Selena St. Andre

Archivist, George Washington University

Damian Martinez

Grand Valley State University

Zack North

Adult and Young Adult Librarian at Mitchell Public Library

Molly K. Maloney

University at Buffalo

ALA and ACRL Member

Medical Library Association Member

Dan Simon

Seven Stories Press

HF

ALA & YALSA roundtable(?) member

Tessa Gunnell

Frederick County Public Libraries

ALA Member

Margaret Peachy

Ellen Schweitzer

UFT

Jocelyn Swick-Jemison

ALA Member

Jen Hoyer

New York City College of Technology

David Silver

Associate professor and chair, Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco

Kathleen Bryant

Young Adult Programmer, Kenton County Public Library (Covington)

MK Brunson

Public librarian and MLIS student 

Pamela Rose

Liaison and Special Projects Librarian, Health Sciences Information Team, University at Buffalo 

Karl G. Siewert

Academic librarian in Oklahoma, active in OLA, OK-ACRL, and ALA

Max Macias

Independent Librarian

Andrea V. Grimes

Book Arts & Special Collections

San Francisco Public LIbrary

Derrick Harden

Polly Thistlethwaite

The Graduate Center Library, CUNY

Ellen Warning

Library Assistant- Kenton County Public Library, Covington, Kentucky

Hal Schrieve

New York Public Library

Children's Librarian

Clara Cabrera

Kathleen McCook

ALA Member

University of South Florida

Katy Anastasi

Clark College Libraries

1,700 signatories

Hallie Clawson

Librarian, CSU Dominguez Hills

ALA/ACRL Member

Laverne Mann

ALA Chapter Councilor, New Jersey Library Association

Amy McAbee

ALA member

Ralianna Garcia, MLIS

Solano County Library Staff

ALA Member

tiziana lohnes

Julia Lubey

ALA Member

Amy Gray

Veronica Armour

Beth Raff

ALA member

NJASL President Elect

Jennie Correia

Michael B. Jones

Library Director

Leslie Hayes

Brianne Hawes

Former ALA Member 

current library employee

Sarah Wingo

Institutional Member

Villanova University

Sam Leif

ALA Lifetime Member

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Katherine Casey

ALA/ACRL member

Jillian Sparks

St. Olaf College

Jasmine Sykes-Kunk

ALA/ACRL/RBMS member

Jason Kruse

ALA Member

Samantha Mills

Branch Head, Vancouver Public Library (Canada)

Charessa Sistek

ALA Member, Rainbow Round Table Member

Laila Brown

Academic Librarian

Jessica Hymers

MLIS Student, University of Toronto

Meaghan Gibeaux

ALA 

Leah Dudak

Syracuse University, iSchool, PhD student

Librarian 

Jennifer K. L. Bradshaw

ALA Member

Janet Rhodes

West Custer County Library District

ALA Member

Kelsey Nordstrom-Sanchez

ALA member

California State University Monterey Bay

Emily Clasper

ALA Member

Davis Erin Anderson

Keiko Sanders

YALSA and RRT

Jennifer Wells

Oregon State University

ALA Member

William Shakalis

Associate Librarian, Emeritus

Worcester State University

Worcester, Massachusetts

Robert Kohl

Multnomah County Library

ALA member, ALA CORE member

Faith Jones

Library Director, Columbia College Vancouver

Jack Eoghan Hession

Jeff Campoli

Tanya Ellenburg-Kimmet

University of Dayton, Roesch Library

Jessica Kohout-Tailor

ALA Member

A.J. Muhammad

Alicia Gough

New Jersey Library Association [NJLA], Staff

Amy C. Vo

Princeton University

Uta Hussong-Christian

Oregon State University Libaries

Kristen LaBonte

ALA Member

Annie Platoff

Academic Librarian, UCSB

Angela Jordan

Teton County Library

Margarita Shawcross

ALA Member

Elspeth Healey

University of Kansas

ALA Member

Suzanne Lipkin

Librarian

ALA member

Amy Sears

Teaneck Public Library

ALA Member

Kate Drabinski

Principal Lecturer, Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies, UMBC

Matt Ruen

Scholarly Communications librarian, Grand Valley State University

Jo Cornish

Charlotte Lellman

Harvard Medical School

Rebecca C. Thayer

Harvard Medical School Library

Kathleen DeLaurenti

Tina Rose

Laura Zeigen

Shay King

Head of Business Development at the Racine Public Library (Racine, WI)

Jane Collins

Alexis Cantu

Adult Services Librarian at Chicago Public Library

Jessie Tepper

I work at a publisher that attends and supports ALA.

Rebecca Reznik-Zellen

University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

Adam Young

Work at a Library

Jade Lopez

Public Librarian

Heidi Burkhardt

University of Michigan Library

ALA and ACRL member

Anne Haines

Indiana University Libraries

Lillian Castillo-Speed

ALA Member

Miki Goral

UCLA Library

Sine Hwang Jensen

UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library

Addy Robinson

Librarian

ALA Member

Olivia Olivares

Instruction & Outreach Librarian, University of California, Merced

Corliss Lee

Member of ALA and ACRL

Erin Durham Wright

University of Maryland Baltimore County

ALA member

Mark A. Puente

Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies 

ALA/ACRL Member

Rhonda Kauffman

Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Libby Coyner

David Michalski

Social and Cultural Studies Librarian, UC Davis

Dena Marger

Library Director, Dummerston, VT

Judy Lee

University Programs Teaching Librarian, University of California, Riverside

Member: ALA, ACRL

Loesja Vigour

UK-based librarian

Nicholas Brown

University of the Arts London

Christina Benson 

Alessandra Seiter

Community Engagement Librarian

Harvard Kennedy School

Tim Buckingham

Public Librarian

Somerville Massachusetts 

John H. Bondurant 

Georgia Titonis

Kalmia Strong

University of Iowa Libraries

Jane Barnwell

Grants Manager, University of Florida Libraries

Jennifer K. L. Bradshaw

University of Iowa

ALA/ACRL/RBMS/Core Member

Amanda Kowalski

Digital Archivist

Marisol Moreno

Valerie Florez

Academic Librarian

ALA Member

Dianne Aldrich

ALA Member, 20 years

Steve Tetreault

Member, ALA, AASL, NJLA, NJASL

Charity Stokes

NMRT Councilor

Joe Askins

Librarian

ALA Member

Kurt Wittig 

ALA Member 

1,800 signatories

Sarah Joseph

ALA Member

Cindy Bowen

ALA Member

Jensen Fisher, MLIS, AHIP-S

Frank Ritchel Ames Memorial Library 

Elissah Becknell

Cataloging & Metadata Education Librarian

ALA Member

Adrienne Sanders

Librarian

ALA member

Aliqae Geraci

Director, Reuther Library, Wayne State University

ALA Member

Isa 

Library Employee and ALA Supporter

Jim Kuhn

ALA Lifetime Member

The University of Texas at Austin

Lisa Studier

Catalog Librarian, New York Botanical Garden

Shelly McCollum

University School Librarian

ALA Member

Jon Drucker

Alison Kastner

Reader Services Librarian, Multnomah County Library

Marie Hviding

Tricia Greenstein

ALA member, APALA Social Media

Judanne Hamidzada

Community Libraries of Providence  

ALA Member

Michael Babinec 

Librarian, ALA member

Bob Diaz

ALA Councilor

Jennifer Sippel

Faculty Librarian, Minneapolis Community and Technical College

Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

Senior Lecturer, Columbia University; children's author, Scholastic 

Wesley R. Bishop

Jacksonville State University 

Stephen Francoeur 

Baruch College

ALA member

Kyle Lukoff

Amy Roberts

Archivist at University of California Riverside

Lisa Nagid

Abigail Gobrn

ALA and CORE Member, CORE Communications Chair 

Pam Rybus

ALA member 

Retired school librarian

Matt Imrie

Librarian

Dinah Sanders

MLIS, San Jose State University; former library software senior product manager

Elliana Bowen

Alyssa Picard

Member, ALA

Cynthia Christie

Katya Schapiro 

Library Director, Easthampton Public Library

Dan Kletter 

Kurt Boberg

Orvie Dingwall

University of Manitoba

Julie Turley

Trenton DuVal

Rose Rodriguez

Elizabeth Davis

ALA Member

Chip Calhoun

Archivist

Lisa Sloniowski

Librarian

Liv Hanson

ALA & ALSC member

Madeline Veitch

Associate Librarian, SUNY New Paltz

Matthew Garklavs

E-Resources Librarian, 

Pratt Institute Libraries 

Michael Peterson

Library patron

Sarah Dziedzic 

Yolonda Edwards

Mike Conti

Library worker, ALA & AFSCME 1624 member

Mia Ciallella

Kelly Mills

Librarian

Joshua DeVries

Texas State Employees Union

Maria T. Accardi

Faculty Librarian

Coordinator of Instruction and Assessment

Indiana University Southeast

David S Crawford

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK)

Rain Perry

Former Branch Manager, Meiners Oaks Library

Paul Quinzi

Law Library Reference Attorney

Elizabeth Christian

Ryan Knight

Tim Tripp

Lorraine leitz

Emanuela Bianchi

New York University

Nathan Hohl

ALA Member 

Mike Jung

Author, illustrator, librarian

Whitney Holt

Arpita Bose

Health Sciences Library Director

ALA member

Erin Gunderson

Fargo Public Library

ALA Member

Cindy Hohl #WarriorLibrarian

AILA Past President & ALA President-Elect, In Service & Solidarity 

Alejandra S. Méndez, Ed.D.

Librarian

ALA Member

Tara Patterson 

Library paraprofessional

Fernando Este

I am an ALA Active Member

Anita Bass

ALA member

BCPL-IAMAW Local Lodge 4538 President

Matt Davis

Systems Librarian

Livingstone Marmon

Pamela Gunter

Librarian

Debra Elfenbein

Special Collections Librarian, Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore; Member, Pratt Workers United

Bee Potter

Renae Lattin

None-just a visitor

Christine Curreri

Librarian Baltimore County Public Library

Jennifer Hecker

Librarian, Archivist, Consultant

Nick Demske

ALA member

PLA member

PLA Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Committee Member

Lesley Garrett

ALA Member

MLIS Student

Angela Pashia

Breen Tivnan

Library Assistant, Lake Forest School District 67

Phoebe Waldron

ALA Member

Pamela Pedersen

Tara Robertson

Kerri Dame-Robinson

Austin Public Library 

ALA Member 

Anne Langendorfer

University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

Janice Winkler

University of Manitoba 

Samantha Quiñon Snair

Tuft University

ALA Member, Emerging Leader 2018

Caroline Broeren

Chicago Public Library

ALA Member

Esther Kaplan 

Current masters in library and information science student and will become an ALA member after! 

Lauren Kehoe

New York University

ALA Member

Annika Barranti Klein

Monique Clar

E. Friedman

Librarian

Nisha Mody

Leigh Topfer

no affiliation with ALA (retired librarian)

Lauren Lepanto

Katrin Nielsdottir 

University of Manitoba 

1,900 signatories

Pamela Wren, MLS

Kelly Hath

Western Libraries, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Steve Ely

Librarian

Julie C. Tozer

Public librarian and AFSCME (NJ) Local 1454 executive board member

Heidi Hetzel

Christina Sirois 

Harvard Kennedy School Library & Research Services

ALA member

Shannon Mattern

University of Pennsylvania

Rich Rubin

Vinson Li

Alison Farrell 

Memorial University of Newfoundland - Canada

Tonya Mahar

Manager, Library Services

Baycrest - Toronto, Canada

Laura J. Smart

University of Western Ontario Libraries

Kim Carson

Head, Teaching & Learning

Western Libraries

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

Sadaf Ullah

Medical Librarian

Angela Kaesheimer

Library Associate - Kenton County Public Library

Kristin Hoffmann

University of Western Ontario

Natalie Vielfaure

Heather Bidzinski

University of Manitoba, Archives & Special Collections

Amanda Ross-White, AHIP, MLIS

Alanna Marson

Librarian

Jessie Cunningham

April Schweikhard

ALA Member

Meredith Tummeti

ALA Member

Robin Desmeules

Cataloguing Librarian, McGill University Libraries

Laura Banfield

McMaster University

Sam Popowich

Digital Infrastructure Librarian, University of Winnipeg

Natalie Colaiacovo

Allison McArthur

David Jackson 

Stephen Spong

Western University Library

Elizabeth Miller

ALA Member

Christian Pustka

Jennifer Dumond

Education Services Librarian, NOSM University 

Rumi Graham

ALA member since 1989

Meghan Burke

Denise Horoky - Educator

Teaching and Learning Academic Librarian 

Lorie Kloda

McGill University Libraries

Heather Mumford

Harvard Medical School

Heather Pretty

ALA and ALA CORE Member

Jennifer Ticknor

Renate Cumming, Librarian

Grace O'Hanlon

University of Manitoba

Richard Carter

Librarian, University of St. Michael's College, Toronto

Richard Carter

Librarian, University of St. Michael's College, Toronto

Kristin Kerbavaz

University of Western Ontario

Katie McDonough

Delaware Library Association

Marilyn Clarke

Librarian, IALS - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK

Marianne Reeves

Librarian 

ALA Member

Ruby Warren

University of Manitoba

Mê-Linh Lê

University of Manitoba

ALA Member

Jodie Morin

Library Director

Buena Vista University

ALA Member

Kelly Kimberley

Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

Katina L. Rogers

Ian Fraser

University of Winnipeg

Jennifer Soutter

Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians

Sonya Betz

University of Alberta

Anna Glassman

Librarian

Sarah Connolly

ALA Member

Nabeel Siddiqui

Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Susquehanna University

Kenneth McFarlan

....no affiliation apart from my MLS being recognized by the ALA. 

Evan Sterling

University of Ottawa (Canada)

Sandra Cowan

ALA accredited academic librarian

Lauren Dodd

Patricia Moore

ACRL, IFRT, IRRT, LRRT.

Karen MacDonell

Sara Abbatemarco

Paula Cardozo

Professional Librarian III

University of Lethbridge Library

ALA Member

Jacob Berg

Anders Tobiason

Boise State University

Colleen Pawliuk

BC Children's Hospital

Justine Wheeler

Anna Franz

Yale University

ALA member

Denyse Rodrigues

Mount Saint Vincent University

ALA member

Kathy Sexton

Librarian

Oak Park Public Library

Liz Rodrigues

Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Grinnell College

Paul R. Pival

Librarian

Gillian Akenson

Queen's University, Ontario (Canada)

Dee Wallace

Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian, University of Winnipeg

Elizabeth-Anne Johnson

Archivist, University of Calgary

Jenna Friebel

librarian, ALA member

Franklin Kennedy

Amber Billey

ALA Core Metadata and Collections Section Past-Chair

Leah Maughan

CILIP Member (UK) 

Michelle Mussuto

Librarian, CSU Chico

ALA member

Leah Hopton

Communications Manager, BC Electronic Library Network

Melanie Mills

President, Ontario Library Association; Director, FIMS Graduate Library, Western University (Canada)

Katherine Miller

Librarian, Past Member of ALA

Allison Rein

Pamela Kruger

ALA member

ACRL member

Rebecca Montgomery, MLIS

Darcie Smith

Hospital Library Manager

Ania Dymarz

Simon Fraser University

Jennifer Robinson

Western Libraries

Jordan Ruud

University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

Emily Frigo

GVSU

Casey Smith, PhD

Chair of Liberal Arts

Delaware College of Art & Design

Jason Heckathorn

University of Florida Libraries

Ayana Looney

MLIS, ALA member

Colleen Bell

University of the Fraser Valley (British Columbia)

Priscilla Carmini

Kristine Paulus

Collection Development Librarian, New York Botanical Garden

Kris Joseph

Assistant Librarian, York University

Caro Pinto

ALA Member 

2,000 signatories

Kristin Chapman, MLIS, AHIP, SRSS

Samantha D'Acunto 

Manager of Public Services and Reference Librarian, New York Botanical Garden

Jennifer Grant

York University Libraries

Ilo-Katryn Maimets

Paige Bradley

Trina Grover

Librarian at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Rebecca Stuebe

Multnomah County Library

Dr. Carol Williams

Professor of History, Dept. of History, University of Lethbridge, Alberta CAN.

Matthew Black

Maddie Romansic

University of Washington Libraries

Barbara Sobol

Lawrence Fiorelli (they/them)

Brooklyn Public Library

former ALA Stonewall Award chair

Alyssa Sklar

ALA Member 

Brenda Bell 

Western Libraries, Western University, London, ON Canada

Pearl Herscovitch

Stacy Brinkman

UC Irvine Libraries

Kimberly Shotick

ALA member

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz 

NYU Libraries 

Megan Fitzgibbons

ALA Member

Patti Ryan

York University Libraries

Greg Bosley

Hale Polebaum-Freeman

Williams Libraries

ALA Member

Naz Torabi

Toronto, Canada 

Hal Loewen

Member

Corinne Abba

George Brown College (Toronto, Canada) 

Tomasz Mrozewski 

York University Libraries

Katrina Cohen-Palacios

York University Libraries

Benjamin Salt 

Central Saint Martins Library, University of the Arts London 

Shea Wert

User Services Librarian, New York Botanical Garden

Meagan Stanley

Teaching & Learning Librarian, University of Western Ontario.  Non-member. 

Katie Rojas

University of Virginia

Suzanne Preate

Librarian

Brittni Ballard

ALA member, Learning Technologies Librarian Towson University

Kathy Joseph

DLA member and Membership chair for DLA

Bethany Keeley-Jonker

Professor, Trinity Christian College

Nicolle Lemay

Canadian librarian

Rhiannon Jones

ALA member

Lorelei Sterling

University of Alaska Anchorage, ASIG Co-Convenor, FULDG Co-Chair

Meg Miller

University of Manitoba

Jill Minor

Librarian, ALA Member

Aaron Dobbs

ALA Councilor for Small Round Tables

Jeannie Bail

ALA IFLA Representative to Management & Marketing Standing Committee

Sata Prescott

ALA member, RRT member

Sara Janes

University Archivist, Lakehead University

Caitlan Maxwell

No ALA affiliation

Mara L. Thacker

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Andrea Slonosky 

Librarian

Quinn Dombrowski 

Co-president, Association for Computers and the Humanities

ALA member 

Victoria Chambers

Melanie Cassidy

University of Guelph

Danielle De Jager-Loftus

ALA South Dakota Library Association Chapter Councilor

Danielle Marie Bitz

Indigenous Engagement Librarian, University of Winnipeg

ALA Spectrum Scholar 2016/2017

Jessa Mockridge

Subject Librarian, Goldsmiths, University of London

Feminist Library, London, UK

Emma Rooney

University of Michigan School of Information

Raquel Espasande

Bluestockings Cooperative Worker-Owner

Bryan Neil Jones

Librarian

Erica Freudenberger

ALA Member

Michelle Reed

Library Futures

ALA Member

Lisa Krajecki

affiliated with the ALA

Ken Jones

Brooklyn Public Library

Louise Gillis

Dalhousie University Libraries

George Thompson

Associate Librarian, California State University, Chico

Sharon Swados

Dir. of Sales and Subsidiary Rights, The New Press, and lifetime public library patron and supporter

Sarah Christensen

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tiffany Pagni

Victor G

Ali Cotterill

Jonas Herriot

Library Manager - Henley Business School

María Evelia Emerson

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Matthew Roberts

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kim Ranger

Grand Valley State University Libraries

Bianca Finley Alper

Digital Project Archivist, University of Arizona Libraries

Shauna-Kay Harrison

ALA Member

Katherine Ryner

Librarian

ALA Member

Lars J. Klint

Harvard University

ALA Member

Isabel Quintana

Harvard University 

ALA & ACRL Member

Laura Sherriff

Honor Moody

Harvard Library

ALA, CORE, ACRL/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section member

Angela Jones

Youth and Family Program Coordinator, Skokie Public Library

SEIU Local 73

Lynda Day

Brooklyn College

Claire DeMarco

Harvard Library

Chair, ALA-Core Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Committee

Tamara Goheen

Community Services Coordinator, Austin Public Library

Lynette Mejia

Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship

Cynthia Reid

Harvard University

John Dickson

Library assistant, Harvard University

S. Millard

ALA Member

Book Lover

Anna Van Someren

Librarian 

Melinda Carr

Access Services, Harvard University

Emily Macleod

Union Public Library

Union, NJ

Jasmine Jones

ALA Member

Laura Melbourne

ALA Member

Terri Grief

ALA GameRT Councilor

Tanis Franco

Gia Farruggia

Public Library Worker

Val Lem

Academic Librarian

Joe Carrano

Cassandra Shiflet

Digital Collections Specialist, Temple University

SAA Member

Megan Keller Young

University of Illinois Chicago

Kristen Kruse

University of Manitoba

Sarah Ainsworth

Archivist

J.E. Molly Seegers 

Renee Ting

Mountain View Public Library

2,100 signatories

Michelle Schwartz

Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University

Martha Attridge Bufton

Librarian

Laurin Arnold

ALA Member

Heath Umbreit

Librarian

Heath Umbreit

Librarian

Daniela Dover

Oxford University

Susan Dove Lempke

Lincolnwood Public Library

Tristan Gordon

American Prison Writing Archive

Maria E. Ruiz Olide

ALA Member

John Kaderbek

Aaron Smith

Adult Services Librarian, Ypsilanti District Library (Michigan)

Cassandra Thompson 

Illinois Heartland Library System 

ALA Member

Bradley Northcote

Michael L. Stewart

Metadata Librarian, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press

Jaime Taylor

University of Massachusetts

Meghan Ecclestone

Past member, ACRL

Mathew Vis-Dunbar

Sara Homan

Widener Library, Harvard University

Cecile Farnum

Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

Matthew Reidsman

Grand Valley State University

Jefferson Harbin

University of Lynchburg

Diana K. Wakimoto

Librarian & ALA Member

Annie Sirski

President, Students of the American Library Association at the University of Washington iSchool

Miklos Hubay

Metadata Librarian, LIS PhD (Hungary)

Tim Wolfe

Dartmouth College Library

Janet Rothney

University of Manitoba

Denise O'Malley

Harvard University 

ALA Member

Cara Cadena

ALA member

Laura Cohen

Librarian

Mariana Robertson

Evan Stewart 

Jessica Longo

Mary Reynolds

LAWCHA member

Kenya Senecharles

Heidi K. Dawes

Cornell University

Nicole Fonsh

Librarian

Mandy Salley

Noel Reich

ALA Member, RRT Member 

Marina Valenzuela

Previous member, current member of AALL

Renata Ewing

Librarian

Susan E. Thomas

Instructional Services Librarian, Pace University, New York, NY

colleague of Emily at LIU for 7 yrs

Jake Rosenzweig

Adult Services Librarian, Salt Lake City Public Library

J. Wendel Cox

Dartmouth College Library, DCLWU

Maura Johnson

Librarian

Kelly Davis

Yale University

Adrienne Canino

Eleanor Ball

ALA Member

Cristen Polley

BC Electronic Library Network

Jessica Hollister

Librarian

Leanna Barcelona

Helen Wong Smith

Meg Suhosky

Archivist

Alex Wilensky 

Member

Rose Harrison

Delaware Library Association

Heather Campbell

Western University, institutional member

Eliza Bettinger

Cornell University Library

Member, ALA

Donna Baluchi

University of Utah

Matthew R.M. Cassidy

Branch Librarian, Albany Public Library (Albany, NY);

NYLA Prison Librarianship Panelist 2020

Bonnie Wielt

Albany Public Library

Emily Baer

ALA Member

Colette Smith-Strong

Rainbow & Social Responsibilities Round Tables member

Kelly Czarnecki

ALA Member

YALSA Past President

Timothy Colman 

Ashley Colstad

Nicole Zeller

Library worker

Claire Packham

City, University of London

C. Elliott

ALA Member, Reference & Instruction Librarian

Mary Moser

Engagement & Advancement Librarian, UMass Boston

ALA member

Meghan Bailey

Librarian and Archivist

UMass Boston

Jessica Holden

University of Massachusetts Boston

Jane Cothron

ALA member

Jennifer Garner

ALA Member

2023 President Association for Rural & Small Libraries

Director, North Liberty Library 

Marianne LaBatto

Associate Archivist, Brooklyn College Library

Alexandra de Luise

retired librarian, Queens College/CUNY

ALA member since 1980

Yelena Novitskaya

MEC, CUNY

Carrie Jedlicka

Kingsborough Community College Library, CUNY 

ALA member

Rosemary Farrell

ALA/ACRL member

Max Thorn

Librarian, Queens College-City University of New York

Rena Grossman

CUNY Librarian, former ALA & ACRL member

Ian McDermott

LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Beth Borene

Delaware Library Association

Kate Fais

NYPL

Sarah Tuttle

UW Seattle

Kristen Hanley Cardozo

Leah Torres, MD MS

Physician in Alabama

Christine Eldred 

Librarian

Joshua Peach

Librarian, CUNY - New York City College of Technology

Ken McDouall 

Washington State Library 

ALA / PLA Member

Marilyn Day

Librarian III at Healey Library, UMass Boston; ALA member

Kelli Trei

Librarian

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Michael August

Library Assistant - Chesapeake Public Library, ALA member

Deborah L. Corbin

Branch Assistant, ALA Member

Chloe Riley

Librarian, Simon Fraser University Library

ALA Member

Maureen Babb

University of Manitoba

Lauren Collister

Former ALA member

University of Pittsburgh

Mariana Regalado

Brooklyn College, CUNY

Haruko Yamauchi

Librarian, Hostos Community College (CUNY)

ALA member

2,200 signatories

Sarah Prindiville

Eve Kausch

University of Washington

Emily Connelly

Librarian

Martha Tenney

Barnard College 

Alyssa Valenti

Raritan Valley Community College

ALA, ACRL Member, Past President NJLA College & University Section

Chelsea Hartness

Em Heyburn

University of Georgia Libraries

Abbey Hensley

Emily Cara

Library Staff

Lara Friedman-Shedlov

ALA/ACRL/RBMS Member

Cammie Hardouin

ALA Member

Beatrice Pulliam

Rhode Island Library Association

April Sheppard

SRRT Past-Coordinator

Derek Wilmott

University of Toledo / ALA, SRRT, and Core member

Eileen M. Palmer 

ALA Member.  Former Chapter Councilor

Silvia Lin Hanick

LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Allison Reisig

ALA Member

Nebraska Librarian

Elizabeth Brown

GNCRT Treasurer, GameRT Secretary

Lauren Stark

George Bergstrom

ALA Member

President of the Games & Gaming Round Table

Carol Kassel

New York University, ALA Member Institution

Joshua Newport

Member of ALA

Rachel Mahre

New York University

Jamia Williams

Weatherly Stephan

NYU Libraries

Rebecca Strang

ALA Games & Gaming Round Table Past-President

Sam Mandani

NYU Libraries

ALA/ACRL member

Richard McGowan

Research Librarian - NYU School of Medicine

Carol Choi

ALA Member

Rye Gentleman

ALA Member

Lia Warner

ALA Member

Nora Lambert

Content Specialist, NYU Libraries

Joseph G. Pawletko

New York University Digital Library Technology Services

Samuel R. Putnam

New York University

Vice-Chair, Science & Technology Section, ACRL

Stacy Torian

David Michon

Enrique Yanez

NYU Libraries

Amanda Watson

Librarian for English and Comparative Literature, New York University

ALA member

Lily Susman

ALA Spectrum Scholar

Lorna Rourke

Librarian Emerita, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo

Former ALA member

Jennifer Rosenthal 

Member of ALSC, NMRT, PLA, SRRT

Edith Beckett

ALA member

Jessika Davis

Lisa Horowitz

Member since 1997

Betsy Fagin

Librarian

Melissa Yip

Alex Wermer-Colan

Temple University

Amanda Waller

ALA Student Member

Anonymous

Scott Collard

NYU Libraries

Ariana Valderrama

Chicago library supporter

Michelle Kim

Louisa Choy

UMass Boston

Joan Castro

Access Services Coordinator at Stella and Charles Guttman Community College (CUNY)

Samantha Walsh

Hunter College Libraries, City University of New York (CUNY)

Joseph Morris

Outreach Associate

Brooklyn Public Library

Jojo Karlin

Jonas Lamb

ALA Member

Immediate Past President, Alaska Library Association

Nick Passabet

Perry Genovesi

Free Library of Philadelphia Librarian & AFSCME District Council 47 Local 2187 Steward & Delegate 

Chris Pollette

Emory University

Nicole Greenhouse

NYU

Jonathan Cope

College of Staten Island,CUNY 

Emily Bullough

Salt Lake County Library

ALA Member

Peter Sachs Collopy

University Archivist, Caltech

Courtney Griffin

MLIS student - University of Washington

Former Montana State University Library staff

Jaclyn Wilson

Ali Versluis 

University of Guelph

Charlie Leppert

Librarian Trainee

Laura Hart

Publishing Professional

Rachael Bild 

Skokie Public Library

SEIU 73

ALA member 

Tova Johnson

Librarian

Gioia Stevens

New York University Libraries

Karen McGrath 

ALA member

Molly Brown

Reference and Outreach Archivist 

Northeastern University

Vanessa Banti

Librarian

ALA Member

Amy Brunner, MLIS

Independent researcher & unemployed archivist

Jozsef Meszaros

Columbia University

Patrick Frownfelter

ALA Member

Cara Marta Messina

Marist College

Courtney Hunt

Whitney Wimbish

Writer

Rebecca Colesworthy

SUNY Press

Rebecca Colesworthy

SUNY Press

Emily Heath

Brooklyn Public Library, ALA member 

Angelica Rodriguez 

Helen H Spalding

ALA Member/Former ACRL President

Moacir P. de Sá Pereira

JD Ho

Writer

Ezra J. Teboul

Student Librarian, Concordia University 

Frankie Condon

University of Waterloo

Stephanie Abba

Raz Reuel Nesher

Reference Librarian, Springfield City Library

Springfield, MA

Lalitha Nataraj 

Librarian

Stacy Costabile

Librarian

Renée Trilling

Veronica Arellano Douglas

ALA Member

University of Houston Libraries

Gabriella Cassidy 

MLIS Student 

Amanda Hegge

Librarian 

Megan (Sage) Hulings

ALA Member

Matthew Kurz

Orangeburg (SC) County Library

ALA Member

2,300 signatories

Julie Beth Napolin

President of The New School Chapter of AAUP

Elizabeth Allen

Librarian and former NMRT member

Aaron Dinwiddie

Alameda County Library

Library Clerk

Claire Lobdell

Librarian and Archivist at Greenfield Community College; Library Freedom Project member

Dr. Caroline Joy Dubinsky

Librarian

Chrissy Lawlor

ALA member

Heather Holmes

shea settimi

Library Clerk, Olive Free Library

Amy Dickinson

ALA Member

Maria Arteaga Cuevas

ALA member

Spectrum Scholar 2023-2024

Jack Sulzer

Past president, member PA Library Assoc. 

ALA member

Gail Matheson

Past member

Bronwen Bitetti

Clark Art Institute Library 

sava saheli singh

York University

Bryan Jones

Megan Wong

Marisol Moreno Ortiz

Reference and Instruction Librarian

Doyun Lee

Enoch Pratt Free Library

Cas Vandersyde

Tyler Rouse

MLS Student

Tyler Rouse

MLS Student

Adam Peretzman

Justine Rivera

Youth Services Librarian

Jeanne Birdsall

Author

Sara Zarowin

Reference Librarian, Westhampton Free Library and Lindenhurst Memorial Library

Loriana Donovan

Librarian at Queens Public Library, LMS student at Queens College

ALA member

Toni Nicosia

CUNY Queens College, President of Queens College Library & Information Science Student Association

Jayme Sponsel

Davidson College Library

Patricia A. Matthew 

Montclair State University 

Emily Spunaugle

ALA LHRT Past Chair

Ryan Cordell

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Meredith Martin

Princeton University

Kel Karpinski

Kelly Watson

West Virginia University 

Bethany Winters

Congressional Papers Archivist, West Virginia & Regional History Center

Tim Dolan

Greenfield Community College

Garrett Norris

Peter Farrell

University of Ottawa (Canada)

Hannah Kane

Youth Services Librarian and ALA member

Daniel Hickey

New York University

Joanna M. Arteaga La Spina

ALA Councilor-at-Large

KatieRose McEneely

Abbott Laboratories 

ALA Member

Eryn Campbell

Research Library Manager

SLA KWM Chapter President

Emily Sherwood

Research Librarian, NAIC

ALA Member 

Nicholas Poole

CEO, CILIP (UK Library Association)

Karen Rutherford

SLA Member

David Cappoli

UCLA School of Law

Innocent Afuh

Texas University Libraries.

Erica Ervin

University of Michigan Library

Samantha Intriligator

Pharmaceutical Librarian

Bryan J. Sajecki

SUNY University at Buffalo

Heidi Butler

Michigan

Jenny Benevento

Librarian

Amanda Jo Greep

Trustee, Homewood Public Library

ALA Member

Amanda B. Albert, MSLIS 

University Librarian & Assistant Professor, Fontbonne University

Theresa Birkett 

Nicholas Schueller

Katie Jackson

J. Edgar Mihelic 

Elected Trustee, Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Public Library 

Laura O'Kane

Librarian

Moira Armstrong

Amanda ReCupido

Vice President, Downers Grove Public Library Foundation

Ash Whitlatch

Howard Winant

University of California, Santa Barbara

Kyla Worrell

Student

Denise Neujahr

Librarian

Mary Reynolds

Jennifer Keyser

Policy Coordinator Librarian, Multnomah County Library

ALA Member

Rachel Kinnon

San Francisco Public Library

Jean Richardson

Cailean Cooney

New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Lindsey Pucci

Teacher

Lynné Colbert

Andrew Hairston

Amber Taylor

Jay Popham

Volunteer, Texas State Library and Archives Commission 

Austin DSA

Peggy Korpela

Kelly Link

Author

Mary Ellen Gilson

Librarian

Chelsea Arnold

Library Director

Bloomfield Public Library

ALA Member

Jenni Kitchen

ALA Member

Kelsey Cheshire

Virginia Commonwealth University

Rob Cheng

MLIS Student

Kathryn Lybarger

University of Kentucky Libraries

ALA member

Jaena Rae Cabrera

President of APALA

Amanda Watson

Librarian for English and Comparative Literature, New York University

M.

ALA Member 

Shamefully employed at a religious university that discriminates against LGBTQIA+

sherri saines

Ohio university

Paul C. Campbell

ALA and ACRL Member 

L. Bryant Willis

Ohio

Miriam Nelson

ALA Core Preservation Section 

Beronica Avila 

Denison University 

ALA member 

Raquel Donahue

Public Services Librarian

Houston Community College 

ALA Member

Linde M. Brocato

Special Collections Cataloger

Torie Quiñonez

Cal State San Marcos University Library

Allison Carr

California State University, San Marcos

Karen Tinajero-Vazquez

Librarian, California State University San Marcos

2,400 signatories

Talitha Matlin

STEM Librarian, CSUSM

Peter Gunther

Qualia Sway

New York Public Library

Emma Molls

Librarian

Mandy Henk

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