ALASC Speaker Event: Inclusivity with ALA President Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada
Please join the ALA Student Chapter on Wednesday, March 22nd at 6
P.M. for a special speaker event with our current ALA President
Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada!
Lessa Kananiʻopua Pelayo-Lozada is the 2022-23 President of the
American Library Association and Adult Services Assistant Manager
at the Palos Verdes Library District in Southern California. She
was the 2019-2022 Executive Director and 2016-2017 President of
the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). In
2022 she received the American Library Association Elizabeth
Futas Catalyst for Change Award and was named a Library Journal
Mover & Shaker in the advocacy category. Much of her work focuses
on advocating for equity, diversity, and inclusion in libraries
and librarianship. She lives in San Pedro, California with her
poet husband, Chrisitan Hanz Lozada and their menagerie of
pets.
Register here:
https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpceutqjwuGdDmoNaboQxVactTenwseeWz
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Location: Online via Zoom