stacey nunn is third career educator with 14 years of experience. currently stacy as a library media specialist baltimore county. she an active member of the american library association and a counselor at large for the 2024 2027 term. additionally she serves on the scholastic publishing. she is the 2024 president of the maryland association of school librarians and is both the advocacy and conference committees. the washington post called that librarian an important and engrossing story. while the book makes clear the importance of what it makes even more clear is the importance of conscientious. like jones willing to stand up for their libraries. and in a starred from booklist, they wrote jones is frank open emotionally raw and unwavering. what she endured is every librarian worst nightmare. yet she perseveres offering tips and playbooks for how readers can defend books against lgbtqia. plus topics of interest. sexual health and more in their public. a must read in order to understand the deep and lasting impact of online smear campaigns and endur

stacey nunn is third career educator with 14 years of experience. currently stacy as a library media specialist baltimore county. she an active member of the american library association and a counselor at large for the 2024 2027 term. additionally she serves on the scholastic publishing. she is the 2024 president of the maryland association of school librarians and is both the advocacy and conference committees. the washington post called that librarian an important and engrossing story. while the book makes clear the importance of what it makes even more clear is the importance of conscientious. like jones willing to stand up for their libraries. and in a starred from booklist, they wrote jones is frank open emotionally raw and unwavering. what she endured is every librarian worst nightmare. yet she perseveres offering tips and playbooks for how readers can defend books against lgbtqia. plus topics of interest. sexual health and more in their public. a must read in order to understand the deep and lasting impact of online smear campaigns and endur

stacey nunn is third career educator with 14 years of experience. currently stacy as a library media specialist baltimore county. she an active member of the american library association and a counselor at large for the 2024 2027 term. additionally she serves on the scholastic publishing. she is the 2024 president of the maryland association of school librarians and is both the advocacy and conference committees. the washington post called that librarian an important and engrossing story. while the book makes clear the importance of what it makes even more clear is the importance of conscientious. like jones willing to stand up for their libraries. and in a starred from booklist, they wrote jones is frank open emotionally raw and unwavering. what she endured is every librarian worst nightmare. yet she perseveres offering tips and playbooks for how readers can defend books against lgbtqia. plus topics of interest. sexual health and more in their public. a must read in order to understand the deep and lasting impact of online smear campaigns and endur

it is my great pleasure to welcome amanda jones and stacey nunn. [applause] [applause] thank you.good evening everyone. thank you for coming out this evening. we are going get started right away with amanda. i hope you all the opportunity to read the book. if not, please do so. just in a few words, amanda, tell me who is amanda jones? how/what inspired you to become a librarian? and how has that moved you forward in termste of your goalsetting? >> okay so who is amanda jones? stacy knows because her friends. i was a small town school vibrated educator for 23 years with very small town louisiana as you can probably tell from a accent. i just caught up my mom and dad raised me too be a reader. my mom is a former she is a retired kindergarten teacher. my dad loved to read and they took us to the library every week. we also would pile our friends in the station wagon and my mom would take all of us, i became an educator i just love my community i think it's a call and would you say it's a call cg you're an educator to. it's a calling being an educator. i always kind of knew that is wh

please join me in thinking tonight's moderator stacey nunn. and our author amanda jones amanda jones. and i bet each one of you came here today already knowing who is you do. that's why you're here. you watch your own facts on fox news. you read her articles and impact us. usa today, new york times and a host of other national publications magazines, you name it. she's been published about everywhere. now, most of us in this room are lifelong staunch republicans and we're conservative. and we're used to hearing at these meetings almost every month a conservative speaker, a republican speaker. today we're going to have a slightly different perspective because our speaker today has a slightly different background historically than some of us here in the room she started out as a and avid democrat. she worked on the campaigns of two of the most liberal senators in the history of california boxer and feinstein she. we forgive you. we forgive you. she worked on the campaign of bill clinton. you that guy back when democrats actually had people that