Session 1A: Women of Color’s Assets and Barriers in Leadership Positions in Academic Libraries (Work in Progress)

Valeria Molteni

Ahmanson Auditorium

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1B: Building an Inclusive Culture of Mentoring in Library and Information Science: Strategies for Mentorship Success and Professional Growth

Rachael-Joy Davis, California State University, Sacramento
Lesley Brown, Montgomery College

Room B

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1B: Leading Students with LEAN

Ashaki Harooon, Xavier University of Louisiana

Room B

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1C: Cafecito, Chisme, and Community Building: Creating a Network of Support as New and New-to-the-Role Librarians

Ariana Varela, University of Southern California
Renee Rau, University of Southern California
Javier Garibay, University of Southern California

Room C

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1C: Virtual Chat & Chew: Radical Self-Care for BIPOC Information Professionals

Jamia Williams, University of Utah
Shannon D. Jones, Medical University of South Carolina

Room C

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1D: Redefining HOME with up//root

Megdi Abebe, up//root, We Here
Kristina Santiago, up//root, We Here

Room D

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1D: What does this have to do with our work?: Creating a library-specific anti-racism toolkit

Jackson Huang, The University Of Michigan

Room D

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 2B: Racelighting: Understanding Experiences with Questioning Our Own Realities

Terezita Overduin, Chaffey College

Room B

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 2B: Reversing White Yearning: A Brown and Queer Filipinx Librarian’s Exorcism of Colonialism and Veneration of Indigenous Ancestry (A Work in Progress)

Joseph Kevin Sebastian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Room B

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 2C: "My Skinfolks but Not My Kinfolks": Searching for Kinship in Libraryland

Ayanna Gaines, Woodbury University

Room C

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 2D: Doubling from 8-16% : Slowly and Steadily Taking Over the Archives Profession

Lizeth Zepeda, Loyola Marymount University
Stef Baldivia, California State University, Chico
Jennifer Ho, California State University, San Marcos
Penny Neder-Muro, California Institute of Technology

Room D

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Lightning Talk: Resisting the Institutionalization of DEIA: Border Thinking and Academic Librarianship

Blanca Garcia-Barron, Mt. San Jacinto Community College

Ahmanson Auditorium

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Lightning Talk: The Application of Indigenous Knowledge and Theory to Decolonize a Non-Native Cultural Museum Collections

Maile Chung

Ahmanson Auditorium

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Lightning Talk: The Cruel Optimism in Becoming a Librarian

Nicole Murph, Loyola Marymount University

Ahmanson Auditorium

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Session 3B: Findings from the Research and Program Development Phase of the BIPOC Become Librarians Project

Hyokyung (Carrie) Hwang, San Jose State University
Michele A. L. Villagran, San Jose State University

Room B

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Session 3C: Young, Brown, Ambitious: How Three Young Women Kept Their New Mexico Libraries Alive in 2020 and Beyond

Kate Alderete, New Mexico State Library
Berdina Nieto, New Mexico State Library
Raquel Martinez, Taos Public Library

Room C

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Session 3D: "Connecting with the Library (under)commons”: Building Community through Class Solidarity as Anticolonial Praxis

Luz Badillo
Selina Portera
Lawrence Maminta

Room D

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM