Dr. kafi kumasi

Kafi D. Kumasi is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, where she teaches in the areas of school library media, urban librarianship, critical multicultural information, and research methods. A Laura Bush 21st century scholar, she holds a PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington and a master's degree in LIS from Wayne State. Her research interests revolve around issues of literacy, equity and diversity, particularly in urban educational environments spanning K12 and graduate school contexts. She is the PI of a federal grant for $247,152 entitled, Project (RUSL) Restoring Urban School Libraries. Her publications include book chapters, and journal articles in (among others) Library and Information Science Research, Library Trends, Open Information Science, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, School Libraries Worldwide, School Library Media Research, and Urban Library Journal.