Tonya Ellis spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Daniel Boone Regional Library in February. Tonya’s an educator and coordinator for library services for the Jefferson City School District and said that reading has had a major influence on her life.She spoke about the importance of access to information and her worries about the latest round of attempts to ban books in schools.

Tonya Ellis: “Reading has kind of been a thread throughout my life.”

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