Right to Read Celebration with Lauren Groff, Ellen Hopkins, George M. Johnson and Jacqueline Woodson

Opening: Katie Phang, host MSNBC’s The Katie Phang Show
VIDEO - Jodi Picoult, author, Small Great Things, A Spark of Light
Book Banning State of the Nation:
Katie Blankenship, Director, PEN America Florida
Lessa Pelayo-Lozada, ALA past president
Fedrick Ingram - AFT Secretary Treasurer
Moderated by Katie Phang, host MSNBC’s The Katie Phang Show
VIDEO - Nikole Hannah-Jones, author "The 1619 Project"
Authors panel:
Lauren Groff, author, owner The Lynx bookstore
Ellen Hopkins, author, Crank
George M. Johnson, author, All Boys Aren't Blue
Jacqueline Woodson, author, The Day You Begin, Brown Girl Dreaming
Moderator: Renee O'Connor, teacher, activist