Miranda McKearney

Miranda is a social justice entrepreneur who has spent 35 years turning kitchen table ideas into nationwide campaigns, culminating in founding The Reading Agency, a national charity, in 2002. The charity’s Summer Reading Challenge now involves 800,000 children every year.
Having “retired” to go trekking, she became fascinated by the building body of research showing that reading builds empathy. This has led to her founding EmpathyLab.

Engaging Libraries and Empathy Day 12 June 2018

Sarah Mears, Programme Manager, Libraries Connected and Miranda McKearney, 7 June 2018 - Events, Outcome: communities

Sarah Mears and Miranda McKearney write about their Engaging Libraries project, and share projects running in libraries to mark Empathy Day

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