In Conversation with Becky Calzada

Becky Calzada is a district library coordinator in Leander, Texas and a co-founding member of Texas #FReadom Fighters, a grass-roots led group of librarians launched in October 2021. She was the 2024-2025 American Association of School Librarians president, has served on the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, is a member of ALA Policy Corp Book Ban Cadre, and is on the Legislative Advocacy Committee for the Texas Library Association. She is the recipient of several intellectual freedom awards and is the co-author of Prepared Libraries, Empowered Teams: A Workbook for Navigating Intellectual Freedom Challenges Together published in June 2024. She is also featured in "The Librarians," an award-winning documentary by Oscar-nominated director/producer Kim A Snyder that spotlights brave school librarians who are on the front lines in the fight against censorship.