Laney Hawes is Co-Founder of Texas Freedom to Read Project. She’s a mother to four children, all currently enrolled in Texas public schools and she was catapulted into the fight for the freedom to read in 2021 when dozens of books were removed from her children’s school libraries. Laney runs her own small consulting business in the publishing industry, teaches group fitness classes at her local YMCA, and she is an avid storyteller.
