Miguel Figueroa is the director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Diversity and the acting director of the Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS). He is co-editor of the book Staff Development Strategies That Work!: Stories and Strategies from New Librarians (Neal-Schuman, 2008). Prior to joining the American Library Association, he worked at the Middle Atlantic Regional Medical Library at the NYU Health Science Libraries and as associate director of publishing for Neal-Schuman Publishers. Figueroa graduated in 2003 from the Knowledge River Program, part of the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona (Tucson), with a strong focus on the impact of diversity on libraries and library services.