About Us

Vision

Equitable classrooms with vibrant students and teachers who inspire each other

  • Strong readers who read voraciously because they connect with and care about the content
  • Involved parents, caregivers, and community members who make classrooms bountiful

Mission

Eliminate the Education Gap and related injustices

  • Celebrate our identities, experiences, and interests
  • Advance collectively into a limitless future
  • Foster peace & prosperity

Who We Are

We are a community of educators, parents, caregivers, book lovers, publishers and more working together to ensure that all of our students are able to fulfill their potential.

Through collective effort, we diversify the passages and stories used in our schools to reflect today’s evolving communities. Because when a child sees themselves in books, they feel seen, valued, and understood, creating empathy and compassion for one another. To improve reading, students need to read regularly, and students read more when the content is relevant to their lives.

Join us by submitting excerpts from published works or using them in your classroom.

Diverse Reads is a registered nonprofit in Minnesota.

Propel Nonprofits is the 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor for Diverse Reads.