EDI Task Force: Expanding Representation: ALSC’s Equity Fellows Program

Authors

  • Nicole Rawlinson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.19.2.35

Abstract

The Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within ALSC Implementation task force exists to heighten visibility, increase opportunities, and eliminate challenges to participation within ALSC for BIPOC library workers.

The task force supports ALSC’s charge to implement EDI practices while diversifying membership and future leadership. It aims to mitigate the impacts to participation associated with costs, perceived accessibility, and lack of diversity, while developing pathways to ALSC membership and leadership opportunities. Through the task force’s work, one of the main initiatives to increase BIPOC representation within the organization was realized through the development of the Equity Fellows program.

Author Biography

Nicole Rawlinson

Nicole Rawlinson is a teen and youth serving librarian, focused on supporting youth and communities through equity-building approaches to programming, services, and professional development. She serves as a Washington state trainer on the YALSA Transforming Teen Services project and is a member of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within ALSC Implementation task force, which also includes co-chairs Danielle Jones and Sophie Kenney, Ayn Reyes Frazee, Sierra McKenzie, Kelly-Ann Smith, and Vicky Smith.

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Published

2021-06-04

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2021): Summer

Section

Departments

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