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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. On Twitter, she is also known as @tinylibrarian.