Mantra Roy, in her role as Community Engagement Librarian, is a tenure-track librarian-faculty at the King Library in San José State University. After earning her PhD in American Literature and a brief college teaching career in Florida, she came to the world of libraries. She received her MLIS degree at the University of Washington, Seattle, gained critical experience at OCLC’s Webjunction, the Global Libraries program at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and then as the Humanities Librarian at University of Rochester, NY, before coming to San José State University. Facilitating access to information and research resources and bringing visibility to community experiences that enrich and inform SIlicon Valley constitute her current work. As the Principal Investigator, she led her team in receiving an IMLS grant of $150,000 for a 2 year program called BIPOC Become Librarians. She has also received a Research and Scholarship grant from ACRL to study academic librarianship in the Global South. Over the last few years, Roy has focused on examining the diaspora of India and South Asia in Silicon Valley. Starting with an oral history project, Desis of Silicon Valley Speak: An Oral History, she has expanded her geographic focus on diaspora communities from eight South Asian countries that call the San Francisco Bay Area ‘home’. The initiative is called South Asians in Silicon Valley. In this context, she argues that even a widely perceived ‘privileged’ immigrant community can be underrepresented in institutional records and believes her projects will create primary source knowledge about the wider community in the region.