Charley Rejsek, most recently CEO of BookPeople, Austin, Tex., is becoming executive director of Put It In a Book, a nonprofit organization committed to increasing literacy and book access among underserved youth, effective October 1.
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Rejsek joined BookPeople as general manager in 2019 and was named CEO in 2022. She started her book career as a bookseller at Barnes & Noble in 1998, rising to national business development manager before leaving the company in 2016. After that and before joining BookPeople, she produced events across Texas for nonprofit news organization the Texas Tribune, and coordinated speaker book signings at the annual Texas Tribune Festival. She has also been involved with the Texas Book Festival since 2007.
During her tenure at BookPeople, Rejsek was a plaintiff along with Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, the ABA, the AAP, the Authors Guild, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, in the 2023 lawsuit against Texas's HB 900 law, also known as the READER Act, which would have established a " book sexual rating system" for books sold to school libraries. (The suit has blocked implementation of the law.) As Put It In a Book noted, Rejsek's involvement in the lawsuit solidified "her role as a statewide advocate for intellectual freedom."