Nadine Johnson

Sep 29, 2023 | pen.org | Nadine Johnson |Suzanne Nossel |Justin Shilad |Julie Trébault

PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. PEN America leadership and Trustees met with White House and State Department officials and members of Congress to discuss advocacy of free expression worldwide.

Sep 15, 2023 | pen.org | Karin Deutsch Karlekar |Nadine Johnson

PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. PEN America kicked off our fall season of literary events with a PEN Out Loud conversation between Zadie Smith and Yaa Gyasi to a full room at The Cooper Union. Across town, we had a sold-out opening reception for Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship, an exhibit co-organized by our Prison and Justice Writing Program.

Jul 30, 2023 | pen.org | Summer Lopez |Nadine Johnson |Liz Woolery

Central to the 2023 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, still ongoing at the time of this writing, are fears that television and movie studios might turn to generative AI tools for ideas and script writing, particularly for more formulaic genres, including children’s television and crime procedurals. This concern falls under the broad rubric of usurpation, or the idea that AI will take over tasks and roles previously carried out by humans.

Mar 28, 2023 | pen.org | Lisa Tolin |Nadine Johnson

HomePEN America: U.S. Is Experiencing the Biggest Attack on First Amendment Rights ‘in Generations’The United States is experiencing “the broadest attack on First Amendment rights in schools and universities this country has seen in generations,” Nadine Farid Johnson, PEN America’s managing director of Washington and Free Expression programs, testified.