Jonna Paden
Archivist, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and President, American Indian Library Association (AILA)

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Photo of Jonna Paden, who has light skin and dark shoulder-length hair and is wearing a blue top.

Jonna C. Paden is an enrolled member of Acoma Pueblo. She is the Archivist at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM and the American Indian Library Association (AILA) President. She is an active member of two Special Interest Groups (SIG) of the New Mexico Library Association: Archives & Archivists and Native American Libraries, of which she was a four-term Chair, as well as a member of the Tribal Library Council and the Native Emerging Professionals Network (NEPN) for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM). For the fall semester, she is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, a tribal college located on Pueblo homelands in Santa Fe, NM. As part of the SJSU Circle of Learning scholarship program, Jonna earned her MLIS in Archival Studies and Records Management in May of 2014.