Duchess Harris was a featured presenter at this year's Momentum Summit along with speakers like CNN host Van Jones and Nicole Austin-Hillery, president & CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. Since 2021, PEN America has documented nearly 23,000 school book bans nationwide. Harris, the DeWitt Wallace Professor of American Studies at Macalester College in Minnesota, has seen multiple books she’s written challenged or restricted. Four of her titles appeared on a list