Joe Curnow is a community organizer and academic whose recent work focuses on building power to address the crises of austerity, securitization, and censorship in public libraries. With Millennium for All, she has worked to replace airport like security screening with community-led and evidence based alternatives to creating safety and welcome at Winnipeg’s downtown Millennium Library. Joe’s academic work brings learning theory together with community organizing and social movement studies to explore how people become politicized and how they become activists in their communities. Joe is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.