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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ray Pun (he/him) is the Education/Outreach Manager at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University where he supports primary source literacy programs, outreach services. Originally from New York City, Ray started his career at the New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Ray is the Vice President of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), incoming Vice President of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), and a life member of Reforma. He holds a doctorate in education from Fresno State, MLS from Queens College, MA in East Asian Studies and BA in History from St. John's University.
Contact: raypun101@gmail.com
Candice Wing-yee Mack is the managing librarian of systemwide Young Adult Services for the Los Angeles Public Library and the current president of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). She has also served as past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a former reviewer for Booklist, a 2012 ALA Emerging Leader, a 2006 ALA Spectrum Scholar, and is an adjunct instructor in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Candice was an inaugural member of ALA's Policy Corps, a member of the 2018 We Need Diverse Books Walter Dean Myers Award Jury, and a member of the 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Jury. Her passions for connected learning, social justice, child and adolescent development, and an unusual coincidence led her to pursue teen services librarianship and advocacy.
Contact: cmack@lapl.org On Twitter, she is also known as @tinylibrarian.
PRESENTERS
PRESENTERS
Xi (Cathy) Chen graduated from the School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University Canada, Cathy Chen joined Queens Public Library in 2004. She is the Assistant Director for the New Americans Program. Cathy is an active member of NYLA, PLA, ALA and CALA. She presented at ALA Annual Conferences, JCLC and REFORMA Mini joint Conference. Cathy serves on the Executive Board of the Northeast Chapter of CALA.
Contact: (Cathy) Chen, New Americans Program, Assistant Director, Queens Public Library xchen@queenslibrary.org
Presentation: Serving Immigrant Communities during the Pandemic and Beyond
Jetzarel González is a library associate at Princeton Public Library, a MLIS student at University of Puerto Rico, and a REFORMA member. She has a background in theatre education and customer service. In her three years in the library field, she has introduced numerous programs for the immigrant and Spanish-speaking community, including "La hora de cuentos," an ESL beginners class, Connecting Teens with La Biblioteca, and a WhatsApp reference tool. Her focus is to serve Spanish speakers and make them lifelong library users.
Contact: jgonzalez@princetonlibrary.org
Presentation: Welcoming Spanish Speakers into the Library using WhatsApp
Nathalie Levine is a library associate at Princeton Public Library, a Master of Information student at Rutgers University, and a member of REFORMA, APALA, and CALA. She has a background in Asian American and immigrant outreach, services, and civic engagement. She has worked as a immigration legal representative, a naturalization program coordinator, a bilingual canvasser, and a Census enumerator. Inside and outside the library, she is passionate about community organizing, outreach, and making information accessible across languages and platforms. Nathalie Levine, Library Associate Adult Services Princeton Public Library.
Contact: nlevine@princetonlibrary.org
Presentation: Welcoming Spanish Speakers into the Library using WhatsApp
Elizabeth Taveras Rivera, Dr. Elizabeth Taveras Rivera is a researcher, teacher, educator, and New York State certified bilingual special education teacher. Her latest publication, Female Puerto Rican Teachers’ Testimonios of Retention and Culture (2020) is representative of her research on teacher retention and culture. Dr. Taveras Rivera has worked as a bilingual education consultant at Fordham University and City College. Her areas of expertise include culturally relevant curricula development in the special education classroom, teachers’ anti-bullying training, and teacher identity and retention. Education Policy Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College. Contact: er515@tc.columbia.edu
Presentation: Our Communities, Celebrating Puerto Rican Stories
Aníbal Arocho is the Library Manager at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archive, Hunter College, City University of New York where he manages library reference services, and a growing collection of over 18,000 items. He holds a Masters of Science in Library and Information Science from the Pratt Institute.
Contact: aa3260@hunter.cuny.edu
Presentation: Our Communities, Celebrating Puerto Rican Stories
Dr. Raquel M. Ortíz Rodríguez, Ph. D. is an anthropologist, educator, and award winning children’s book author. Her scholarship focuses on the visual arts, culture, literature, music, and identity and includes El Arte de la Identidad: Aproximación crítica al jibarismo puertorriqueño en la literatura, la música y las obras de arte (University of Granada, 2011) and the documentary, Memories on the Wall: Education and Enrichment through Community Murals (2013). Dr. Ortíz Rodríguez creates curricula and educational materials for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, the New York City Department of Education, Behind the Book, Literacy INC, Arte Público Press, Brooklyn Public Library, Cleveland Public Library and the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network.
Contact: dr.raquelmortiz@gmail.com
Presentation: Our Communities, Celebrating Puerto Rican Stories.
Shauntee Burns-Simpson (MLIS) currently serves as the 2020-2022 President of BCALA. She is the Associate Director of School Outreach for The New York Public Library. An ambassador for libraries and Youth Librarian, President Burns-Simpson enjoys connecting people to the public library and its resources. She works closely with at-risk teens and fosters a love of reading & learning with her innovative programs. In addition to leading BCALA, she chairs the American Library Association Office of Diversity, Literacy, & Outreach Services (ODLOS) Committee on Diversity.
Contact: shaunteeburns@nypl.org
Presentation: Black Caucus American Library Association BCALA
AUTHOR PANELISTS - DIVERSE ROMANCE
AUTHOR PANELISTS - DIVERSE ROMANCE
Moderator
Miriam Tuliao is a New York Public Library veteran, an adjunct LIS instructor at Queens College and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and a library marketing manager at Penguin Random House.
Contact: mtuliao@penguinrandomhouse.com
www.PenguinRandomHouseLibrary.com
Jane Abieyuwa Igharo, author of TIES THAT TETHER and THE SWEETEST REMEDY (forthcoming from Berkley), was born in Nigeria and immigrated to Canada at the age of twelve. She has a journalism degree from the University of Toronto and works as a communications specialist in Ontario, Canada
Contact: https://www.janeigharo.com/
Priscilla Oliveras is a USA Today bestselling author and 2018 RWA® RITA® double finalist. She and her work have earned praise from the Washington Post, New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, amongst others. Priscilla earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and currently serves as adjunct faculty in the program and teaches the online class “Romance Writing” for ed2go. ANCHORED HEARTS and SUMMER IN THE CITY (Kensington) are her two most recent releases.
Contact: prisoliveras@prisoliveras.com https://prisoliveras.com @prisoliveras
Lillie Vale is the author of the young adult novels SMALL TOWN HEARTS and BEAUTRY AND THE BESHARAM (forthcoming from Viking Children’s). Born in Mumbai, she grew up in Mississippi, Texas, and North Dakota, and now lives in an Indiana college town. THE SHAADI SET-UP (Putnam Adult) is her debut adult romantic comedy. Contact: LillieVale@outlook.com
STORYTELLING
Freda Mosquera is a professional librarian, published author, translator and public speaker. Mosquera earned a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor's Degree in Law and Social Sciences, from Universidad Libre (Bogotá, Colombia.) Mosquera is an active member of national and state library associations such as the American Library Association (ALA), REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish-Speakers, and the Florida Library Association (FLA.)
Contact: mosquerafreda@gmail.com
Irania Macias Reymann is a dynamic speaker, storyteller, author and educator who specialize in the subjects of arts integration in multicultural- bilingual populations, and the connections with literacy, expressive arts and emotional learning. For the past 22 years she has worked as an outreach program specialist for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. As an ardent supporter of schools, libraries, and cultural organizations, she has spoken in many arts, education and humanity base organizations promoting “out of the box” intercultural exchanges for social transformation.
Contact: iraniapatterson@gmail.com
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