Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-2022 school year disproportionately targeted children’s books written by people of color, especially women of color, as concluded in a peer-reviewed study we published. They also tended to feature characters of color. In addition, we found book bans were more common in right-leaning counties that were […]
Katherine Spoon
Katie Spoon is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also pursuing a master degree’s in education policy. Her research uses data science to investigate social inequalities at scale — in scientific careers, education, politics and healthcare. She is currently a data science fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau. Previously, she worked as a research engineer at IBM Research, and studied computer science at Indiana University, where she developed an early-warning system to detect dyslexia.