On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down and speaks to Kasey Meehan, Director of Freedom to Read at PEN America. They discuss her recent coauthored report, A Spotlight on School Book Bans, published in time for Banned Books Week. They discuss the impact of rising book challenges and removals in US schools over the past few years.
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Kasey Meehan is the Director for Freedom to Read at PEN America.Meehan has authored numerous reports for PEN America, including the seminal Banned in the USA report series, documenting an ongoing rise in book bans across public schools in the United States. She has written opinion pieces on trends in the book banning movement and regularly provides commentary to news media pertaining to book censorship, free expression, and democracy appearing in The New York Times, NPR, TIME, and NBC. Meehan has also advised on several pieces of state legislation, including Freedom to Read Acts signed in Maryland and Delaware, and participated in roundtables with congressmembers on the topic of book bans.
This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kiley Eriksen.