Betsy Gomez

Betsy Gomez is the Assistant Director of Communications & Public Outreach for ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and coordinator for Unite Against Book Bans and the Banned Books Week Coalition. Betsy is the former coalition and editorial director for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, an advocacy organization dedicated to the First Amendment rights of the comics community. With more than a decade of professional experience defending intellectual freedom, Gomez also has an extensive background in educational publishing as a content developer and editor.