Franklin Strong is a co-founder and co-director of the Texas Freedom to Read Project. For the past two years, he has created and distributed resources for fighting school book bans and electing school board trustees who support academic freedom and inclusive classrooms. A classroom teacher with more than 20 years of experience, he also holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. His writing on Latin American literature, African-American literature, and the literature of the Caribbean can be found at the Latin American Literary Review and the E3W Review of Books, among other places.
