Webcast Speakers
Theodore Szpakowski
Student Assistant, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College
Theodore Szpakowski works in Musselman Library’s User Services and Scholarly Communications departments. During his tenure, he has completed a variety of projects related to disability justice. These include a disabled authors display, an accessibility audit of the library building and services, and the library’s accessibility information webpage. He is currently working to address some of the barriers identified by the audit in conjunction with the User Services department and the library’s DEIB committee.
Chancey Fleet
Assistive Technology Coordinator, New York Public Library
Chancey Fleet is a Blind tech educator and activist based in Brooklyn. She is the founding Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library, where she runs a free- peer-powered tech coaching service that connects library patrons with print-reading disabilities to 150 hours of one-to-one coaching each month; curates a rotating selection of workshops on tech topics with accessibility in mind; and runs the Dimensions Lab for free and open tactile graphics creation.
Bri M. Watson
PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia
Bri Watson (@brimwats) is a disabled, white, queer & nonbinary settler hailing from N’dakina in Aln8ba8dwaw8gan (colonially: New Hampshire), now living in Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ.
They are a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar and fourth-year PhD. Candidate at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool. Their research focuses on the multiple histories of information and the contemporary practices of equitable cataloging in galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and special collections.
Chloe Misorski
Cataloging Librarian, Cleveland Museum of Art
Chloe Misorski (she/her) has been the Cataloging Librarian at the Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art since January 2020. While in this role she served on a two-person library system implementation task force while working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is proud to have implemented critical cataloging policies at the library including alternative subject headings, reparative description, and reclassification of materials.
Devon Murphy
Metadata Professional
Devon Murphy (they/them) is a metadata and digital collections professional, overseeing standards, policies, and data models for a variety of library and archive holdings. Current work projects include PANA (Pan-American Authorities project with the University of Florida) to create a Spanish language thesaurus and being a member of the PCC Task Group on Metadata Relating to Indigenous Peoples.
Adrian Williams
Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, University of Kentucky
Adrian Williams graduated from Florida State University in 2018 with their Masters in Library Science. They’ve been the Cataloging & Metadata Librarian at the University of Kentucky since 2020, and have been working to make library and archival metadata more inclusive for LGBTQ+ folks, our histories and our cultures ever since.
Richard Ashby Jr.
Director of the Sharon Hill Public Library
Richard E. Ashby, Jr. is a dedicated librarian and community leader who has made a significant impact in the field of librarianship. His passion for making a difference in people’s lives has driven his remarkable journey.
Let’s explore his accomplishments, awards, and offices held:
Professional Background
Nichole Brown
Librarian II, Oakland Public Library and Treasurer, California Library Association
Nichole is a Branch Manager at the Oakland Public Library with over 20 years in the field of Librarianship, all of which has been in California. Nichole started her career in children’s services and will always be a children’s librarian at heart, no matter where the profession leads her.
Jade Dean
MLIS Student at SJSU and Vice Chair for the American Library Association Student Chapter (ALASC)
Jade is a student is SJSU’s MLIS program, an active public library volunteer, and the lead at a craft brewery. She is the Vice Chair for the American Library Association Student Chapter (ALASC) and is currently participating in the Asian American Librarians Association (APALA) year-long mentorship program.
Keau George
MLIS Student at SJSU and Collections & Resource Manager at Hula Preservation Society in O'ahu, Hawai'i
Keau is a student in SJSU’s MLIS program and the Collections & Resource Manager at Hula Preservation Society in O’ahu, Hawai’i.
Raymond Pun
Academic and Research Librarian, Alder Graduate School of Education
Raymond Pun (he/him/his) is the academic and research librarian at the Alder Graduate School of Education. In this role, he supports all library services from research to scholarly communication. With over 17 years of experience, Ray has worked as a librarian in institutions such as Stanford University, Fresno State, New York University Shanghai, and the New York Public Library. He has published and presented extensively and is an active member of the American Library Association.
Ricky Punzalan
Associate Professor, University of Michigan. Focus on Reparative Approaches to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan
Dr. Ricardo L. Punzalan (he/him) is an associate professor at the School of Information and director of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Michigan. A scholar of archives and digital curation, he recently has been inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists. He studies community access and use of anthropological data in archives, as well as the digitization of ethnographic records held in libraries, archives, and museums. His research has established and shaped practices of virtual reunification and digital repatriation of cultural heritage collections.
Erlinda Naputi
President, Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums Director, Joeten-Kiyu Public Library
Hafa adai! With over 32 years of professional public librarian experience, Erlinda Cabrera Naputi is the President of the Pacific Islands Association for Libraries, Archives, and Museums and the Library Director/NMI State Librarian of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library-CNMI State Library under the Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Erlinda is passionate about the important role of public libraries, museums, and archives in developing vibrant and engaged communities, and she is actively engaged in numerous local and national boards and advisory groups.
Sadia R. Khan
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for Texas Workforce Solutions-Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Sadia R. Khan is a Deaf Pakistani American and has been working as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for Texas Workforce Solutions-Vocational Rehabilitation Services for 14 years.
Evelyn Keolian
Children’s Librarian at Chicago Public Library, Founder and Co-chair of the CPL Diversability Advocacy Committee, and Adjunct Professor of American Sign Language at Oakton College
Evelyn Keolian is a Children’s Librarian at Chicago Public Library. She is the founder and co-chair of the CPL Diversability Advocacy Committee. She is an adjunct professor of American Sign Language at Oakton College. She received her MLIS from University of North Texas. Born Deaf, Evelyn has been an ASL user since adulthood. Previously, she has worked at the Pasadena City College Shatford Library (CA), Granada Elementary School (CA), volunteered with Pasadena Public Library (CA) and the Anixter Center Literacy Program (IL) for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Erin Hollingsworth
District Librarian North Slope Borough School District
Erin Hollingsworth has been a librarian in the American Arctic since 2011. She currently works as the District Librarian for the North Slope Borough School District; her position requires her to visit all eight remote communities on Alaska’s North Slope. Prior to that, she worked as the Public Services Librarian at Tuzzy Consortium Library at Iḷisaġvik College, in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Erin has experience working in academic, public, K-12 school, special, and tribal library settings in Alaska, Montana, and British Columbia, Canada.
Laura London
Branch Supervisor Rockrimmon Library, Pikes Peak Library District
Laura London has worked in libraries for over 25 years and in many capacities. She began as a volunteer when her children were small, then began subbing for several school libraries. She received a position as elementary school librarian and has also worked in a middle school library, as well as a university library. She joined the Peace Corps twice; the first time serving in the island nation of Palau where she taught English to elementary grades and worked as the community librarian.
Olena Stovba
Director of the Municipal Institution Nikopol City Centralized Library System
Olena Stovba is the director of the municipal institution “Nikopol City Centralized Library System.” She has been working at the municipal institution “Nikopol City Centralized Library System” since 1989, after graduating from the Kharkiv State Institute of Culture as a librarian-bibliographer of fiction.
Svitlana Moiseeva
Director of the Luhans’k Regional Universal Scientific Library, Vice-president of Ukrainian Library Association
Svitlana Moiseeva started her professional career in 1987 in the Luhans’k Regional Universal Library, where she still works. Over the years, she have made her professional way from a librarian to library manager. She have been the head of this library since 2017.
Moiseeva received her professional education at the Kharkiv State Institute of Culture (now the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture) in 1996.
Krystyna Tumasova
Director of the Municipal Institution Pokrovsk City Public Library
Krystyna Tumasova was born on April 16, 1977 in Abovyan (Armenia), an Assyrian, now is a citizen of Ukraine.
On December 29, 1988, she moved to Ukraine with her parents for permanent residence in the city of Krasmnoarmiisk, Donetsk region.
From the 5th to the 9th grade, studied at the secondary school No. 12 in Krasnoarmiisk. From September 1992 to June 1996, studied at the Krasnoarmiisk Pedagogical College, after which received a Junior Specialist Diploma in Labor Training.