Reading & Robes™ receives support from the Wilbur May Foundation, the NV Energy Foundation, the William N. Pennington Foundation, the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Nevada Gold Mines and Nevada Humanities.
Reading & Robes
A community-outreach initiative for children to promote literacy and civic education
Reading & Robes™ is a community-outreach initiative of the College that began in 2019.
It involves judges, wearing their robes, reading aloud to younger students from culturally diverse books with themes of justice, fairness and the law.
The first books chosen for the program were autobiographical works by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
During its first year, more than 1,200 children from third-grade to high school attended a Reading & Robes™ program in Nevada. More than 2,500 copies of “Turning Pages: My Life Story,” “Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You,” and “The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor” were distributed, in English and Spanish, to children in Reno, Las Vegas and rural Nevada communities.
At least six other states have presented or expressed interest in presenting Reading & Robes™ programs: Alabama, North Carolina, New Mexico, Iowa, Hawai’i and Ohio.
