Deborah Caldwell-Stone is the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. She works on projects "addressing censorship and privacy in the library".

Education

Caldwell-Stone received a B.A. in Mass Media Communications from

Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. ...

in 1982. In 1996, she received a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Career

She began as an attorney with Cassiday, Schade & Gloor and then worked in the Ameritech legal department. Caldwell-Stone joined the ALA's

Office for Intellectual Freedom The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members a ...

in June 2000. In 2009, she became the Acting, and then Deputy Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation.

Advocacy

Caldwell-Stone has extensively discussed and written a number of articles on the Children's Internet Protection Act. In 2014, she participated in the National Coalition Against Censorship's 404 Day, a day meant "to bring attention to the long-standing problem of Internet censorship in public libraries and schools".

References

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