Mary Ann Mavrinac, Doctorate, is vice provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Emeritus Dean, University of Rochester Libraries. Prior to this, she was chief librarian, University of Toronto Mississauga, and head, The D. B. Weldon Library, Western University in Canada. Her areas of expertise are leadership and change, mentoring, and library as place.
"We work in a really special environment - being amongst highly intelligent and diverse researchers and thinkers and educators and the next generation of students who will become society leaders - is super exciting and inspirational. It is also inspiring to see knowledge being created. and advanced for societal good."