Contributors:

Carolyn Caywood: Carolyn has been a librarian since 1972 when she graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit. She manages a Virginia Beach Public Library branch and a Subregional library for the blind. She is outgoing IFRT Councilor, a member of the IFC subcommittee on privacy, and a past Board member of the Freedom to Read Foundation.

Lauren Christos: Lauren is an IFRT Director, past Chair of the Program Committee and incoming editor of the IFRT Report. She is a Reference Librarian at the Biscayne Bay Library of Florida International University and a member of the FLA IFC. In her spare time she is raising a teenage daughter who is already an IF activist.

Pam Klipsch: Pam is a long-time, take-no-prisoners, intellectual freedom advocate and the outgoing Chair of the IFRT Board. She is the Director of the Jefferson County Library, High Ridge, MO and is glad to say that John Ashcroft is her former senator.

Steve Marquardt: Steve, a first time contributor to the IFRT Report, is Dean of Libraries at South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota and is a 24 year veteran activist in Amnesty International.

Nanette Perez: Nanette is Project Coordinator for ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and Staff Liaison for IFRT. She is our “go to” person who sees that all of the behind the scenes things get taken care of.

Doug Archer: Doug is outgoing Editor of the IFRT Report, an IFRT Director and incoming Vice Chair / Chair Elect. He has been recently appointed to both the ALA and Indiana Library Federation Intellectual Freedom Committees. He is Reference and Peace Studies Librarian at the University Libraries of Notre Dame and an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren.