Outreach Librarian
K12 Library Liaison, EOP Bridge Liaison, Liaison to Geography and Recreation & Tourism Management Departments, Coordinator of Outreach Services
Duties and Responsibilities
- Campus and community outreach, library programming
- Reference services and research consultation
- Library instruction and library visit coordination for K12 students
- Library liaison and support for the EOP Bridge program
- Liaison, library support and instruction, and collection development for the following academic departments:
- Geography
- Recreation & Tourism Management
- I also serve on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and am a College Liaison for the Office of Community Engagement
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LibGuides & Blogs
- Geography
- Recreation & Tourism Management
- Resources for High School Students
- Resources for EOP Bridge
- Cited at the Library Blog
Research Interests & Praxis
- Equity, justice, and accessibility in librarianship and academic libraries
- Deconstructing epistemic supremacy
- Open education, open access, and open educational resources (OER)
- Critical information literacy and information literacy instruction
- ACRL Framework
- Understanding misinformation and disinformation
- Developing metaliteracy and metacognitive skills
- Critical and liberatory pedagogies, community building, and popular education
- Emerging technologies
- Serving the whole student, understanding everyday life information needs and behaviors
- Storytelling, narrative, and literature:
- Speculative fiction, American fiction outside the canon, queer fiction, poetry, critical theory, digital storytelling
- Intersections of spirituality, community, and social justice
Professional Institutes & Affiliations
- Black, Brown, and Queer (BBQ+) Pedagogy Lab, Summer 2021
- We Here Community School
- Abolition and Black feminisms, 2021
- Disability justice, 2022
- Glitched Out (Race and technology), 2023
- ALA Spectrum Scholar, 2019-20 cohort; 2022 institute
- REFORMA, OC Chapter (2019-current)
- Current OC Chapter president
Education
- Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS), SJSU iSchool, 2021
- Bachelors in Storytelling and Spirituality, Whittier College, 2017
- Prior education at New York University (2007-2010), Rio Hondo Community College (2012-2015)