Literacy is an essential tool for empowerment and change. So today we’ve assembled the literacy Avengers, to use a comic book reference, to talk about the power of literacy and the challenges we face in promoting it and what Cleveland is doing to empower us all to become literacy ambassadors.
Our Guests:
Laureen Atkins-Holliday - Vice President of Strategic Initiatives with the Literacy Cooperative
The Literacy Cooperative’s links:
Web: www.literacycooperative.org
FB: https://www.facebook.com/literacycoop
Twitter: @literacycoop
Jessica Walsh-Fraizer- Community Outreach Director of the Cleveland Kid’s Book Bank
The Cleveland Kids' Book Bank links:
Web: kidsbookbank.org
FB: https://www.facebook.com/clevelandkidsbookbank
Insta: @kidsbookbank
Twitter: @kidsbookbank
Joshua Edmonds - Chief Executive Officer of Digital C
Digital C Links:
Web: https://www.digitalc.org/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalCorg
Insta: @DigitalC_org
Twitter: @digitalc_org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalc/
Jennifer Jumba - Popular Library Manager at the Cleveland Public Library
Web: www.cpl.org
Insta: @Cleveland Public Library
Twitter: @Cleveland_PL
Ken Glanc - Founder and Director of Operation Comic Book
Web: https://www.operationcomicbook.org/captain-comic-book-1st-issue
FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069678847933
Cleveland Reads Links:
clevelandreads.com
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This podcast was recorded live in the White Room at Evergreen Podcasts in Downtown Cleveland.
Audio Engineer: Noah Foutz of Evergreen Podcasts
Special thanks to Dave Davis, Michael DeAloia, and Noah Foutz
Cover Art by Jennifer Gercak
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