Sandra Deleon, MA Career Counselor, Diversity and Inclusion; Program Lead, Career Readiness; San Jose State University. https://blogs.sjsu.edu/wsq/2018/11/20/sandra-de-leons-storied-career-counseling/
Twanna Hodge is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a 2022 ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellow and was the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida Libraries. She is a 2013 Spectrum Scholar and 2018 ALA Emerging Leader. Ms. Hodge's research and professional interests include diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility issues and efforts in the workplace, and in the LIS curriculum; library residencies, and fellowships; the retention of Black students in LIS programs; cultural humility and the retention of underrepresented and BIPOC library staff in librarianship.
A.J. Muhammad is a librarian in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He was a 2018 American Library Association Emerging Leader and is also on the team of the OBIE Award-winning theater company The Fire This Time Festival, which presents the work of emerging, early career, and under-presented playwrights from the African diaspora.
Dr. Lydia Tang, Outreach and Engagement Coordinator, has been with Lyrasis since March 2021. She provides product demonstrations, quotes, contracts, and ongoing user support for clients for hosted ArchivesSpace and DuraCloud. Prior to Lyrasis, she held archivist positions with Michigan State University, the Library of Congress, and numerous graduate positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - where she earned her MLIS and Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Committed to building tools and community for archivists, she served on the ArchivesSpace Users Advisory Council (UAC) for four years, where she led the Staff Interface Enhancement Working Group, co-led the Development Prioritization subteam, founded the Usability subteam, and completed her term as chair of the UAC. Among her other professional service contributions, she founded the Society of American Archivists’ Accessibility & Disability Section and co-founded the Archival Workers Emergency Fund. For her contributions to the archival profession, she was recognized in 2020 with the Society of American Archivists’ Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award and three Council resolutions. LYRASIS is a 501 c 3 non-profit membership organization whose mission is to support enduring access to the world’s shared academic, scientific, and cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content services, digital solutions, and collaboration with archives, libraries, museums, and knowledge communities worldwide.
Patricia "Patty" Wong is the city librarian of Santa Clara, California. Wong is the President of the American Library Association (ALA) for the 2021-2022 term and is the first Asian American president of the ALA. She has been on the faculty at the San Jose State University iSchool since 2006, teaching subjects such as equitable access to library services, library management, and library services to young people. She earned her Bachelor's degree in women's studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983, and went on to earn her Master of Library Science degree from the same institution in 1984.