Assistant Director of Communications and Public Outreach
ALA, Office for Intellectual Freedom
Betsy Gomez - Assistant Director of Communications & Outreach is a program officer for ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, coordinator for Unite Against Book Bans and the Banned Books Week Coalition, and former coalition and editorial director for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, an advocacy organization dedicated to the First Amendment rights of the comics community. Gomez edited and designed the award-winning publication CBLDF Presents: She Changed Comics, which profiles more than 60 groundbreaking women who expanded the expressive possibilities of the comics medium. With more than a decade of professional experience defending intellectual freedom, Gomez also has an extensive background in educational publishing as a content developer and editor for several companies, including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson Education.
Fighting Censorship in a Changing Landscape
Saturday, January 20, 2024
1:00pm – 2:00pm EST
Sunday, January 21, 2024
10:00am – 11:00am EST
Be Prepared: Program Challenges at Your Public Library
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:00pm – 2:00pm EST