About the Library + Staff

Ms. Rickert grew up in Rhode Island with her twin sister and spent a lot of her spare time volunteering at her high school library. She moved to the Boston area for college to become an editor for some big publishing company, but decided she wanted to pursue one of her other two dreams: being a librarian or being a teacher. When they realized they could do both, they began their master’s program at Simmons University to become a Library Teacher, and eventually became an elementary librarian in East Providence, Rhode Island. While they loved teaching little kids, they knew they wanted to be a high school librarian one day. She worked in Cambridge for a year, then switched to BDEA, where she is so lucky to build the first library program for the school community.

They now live north of Boston with their husband and rescue cats, Vampire and Junimo. Visit the library to say hello, talk about books or video games, or to take part in the various events that take place in our space.