Experience

Education 

MA

• • Master of Library & Information Science, Aug 2012 

  • University of South Florida

BA

• • English, Aug 2004 

  • Minored in Religious Studies

  • Attended Summer Study Abroad in Stratford, England (partnership with Shakespeare Institute) 

  • Florida International University

Library Experience

Adult Library Services Senior Consultant

September 2022-Present

Colorado State Library

Denver, CO

• Designing and delivering professional learning experiences including staff day workshops, conference presentations, webinars, and one-on-one consulting on topics relevant to library work, including how to serve Spanish-speaking and Latine community members, fostering belonging and supporting linguistically and culturally diverse staff, intergenerational programming, fostering collaborative and positive intergenerational library workplaces, and using population and demographic data to identify and anticipate meet changing community needs

• Managing the Adult Library Services Consulting project budget for the Colorado State Library Institution of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) program grant through which all consulting, travel, professional development, acquisitions, contracts, etc. activities for the project are implemented. Includes creation of position and strategic planning for goals and activities related to the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) line item for adult services consulting. 

• Overseeing and administering all aspects of the Check Out Colorado State Parks program for all public libraries and public academic libraries in the state, and maintaining the state library’s partnership with Colorado Parks and Wildlife

• Identifying and providing funding for high-quality, relevant, and transformative professional learning and continuing education opportunities for librarians and library staff in the service of adults with various needs and experiences

• Developing and facilitating a Spanish language learning community of practice—Español for Library Folx—for librarians and library staff across the state

• Identifying state agencies and local organizations with shared missions, values, goals, and/or service populations with Colorado libraries and who can provide resources and/ or help libraries build their capacity in connecting community members to essential services like tax preparation, workforce development, digital skills, healthy living, etc.

• Providing a space to share resources and a forum for libraries to directly connect to those potential partners through the Hidden Gems and Virtual Partners Forum series published on Colorado Virtual Library, as well as by hosting webinars presented by those partners

• Serving as “the librarian for librarians and library staff in Colorado”—responding to libraries request for information on various topics and trends, connect libraries to one another and to partners based on those needs, and provide consultations to share advice, best practices, and resources to help libraries serve their communities

• Creating resource kits—programs-in-a-box, toolkits for professional learning, resource and materials petting zoos—for adult service librarians and staff to use as-needed as a part of the state library’s resource kit circulating collection

• Publishing success stories of library programs throughout the state through the Program Spotlight series on Colorado Virtual Library

• Identifying areas of research needed to provide insight to library services today and opportunities for the future of the state library’s efforts in collaboration with Library Research Services by recommending questions for the Public Library Annual Report (PLAR) (e.g., language diversity, pay differentials for multilingualism)

• Maintaining webpages on the Colorado State Library (Colorado Department of Education) website for: Adult Services, Spanish for Libraries, Digital Inclusion, and Check Out Colorado State Parks

• Locating learning opportunities for library professionals based on their identified needs and aspirations. A selection of webinars hosted to meet these needs include:

• Loneliness and Social Isolation: Tackling the Social Disconnection Epidemic, facilitated by Dr. Rebecca Mullen (Apr 1, 2025) 

• Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Brain Health, facilitated by JJ Jordan and Kelly Osthoff (Jan 30, 2025)

• Community Conversations for Election 2024, facilitated by Annie Caplan from Living Room Conversations (May 22, 2024) 

• Colorado’s Talent Pipeline Report, facilitated by Colorado Workforce Development Council (Feb 12, 2024) 

• OATS and Senior Planet from AARP for Colorado Libraries, facilitated by Aaron Santis and Deidre Lee, AARP Colorado OATS (Oct 2023)

• The Digital Equity Plan for Colorado, facilitated by Melanie Colletti, Office of Future of Work from Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (Nov 9, 2023) 

• Get Ready for Tax Season at Colorado Libraries, facilitated by Isabel Dickinson, Get Ahead Colorado from Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (Dec 7, 2023) 

• Role of Rural Libraries in Promoting Digital Health Literacy, facilitated by Dianne Connery, Pottsboro Public Library (TX) (May 17, 2023)

• Disability 101 for Libraries, facilitated by Disability Law Colorado (May 25, 2023) 

• Homelessness 101 for Libraries, facilitated by Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (Apr 6, 2023) 

• How to Really Reach Latino Communities, facilitated by Jose Luis Ramos (Jan 26, 2023) 

Faculty Librarian

July 2015-August 2022

Broward College—North Regional/Broward College Library

Coconut Creek, FL   

• Experience with the following for programming/ events/ webinars, instruction, document and media creation and publication: D2L Brightspace LMS, SpringShare, Adobe Creative Cloud including Adobe Rush and Adobe Captivate, Microsoft Office 365 Suite for productivity and instruction including Microsoft Power BI and Teams, Canva, YouTube, Zoom, and other similar programs

• Leading successful transition of Broward College Library instructional practices and public service to a 21st century model college-wide, transitioning to blended then remote learning prior to and later in response to COVID restrictions on on-site services and developing innovative practice and program evaluation for embedded librarianship in remote learning environment 

• Identifying library service and instruction areas for development and leadership, for example:  coordinating working groups for the information literacy rubric for college-wide General Education assessment, for library promotion efforts including social media/video marketing and the library bi-semesterly newsletter, for the library’s emerging virtual reference (LibChat) service, and for library department collaboration with Center for Teaching Excellence & Learning and other departments (academic and non-academic) on institutional priorities  

• Communicating value of Broward College library and librarians to student success using evidence and data gathered through innovative, research-based projects that tie traditional and emerging library practices to institutional success metrics (e.g. next semester retention, course success, sense of belonging); exploring new ways of providing critical information literacy instruction and library services to students, thinking beyond the one-shot and/or classroom instruction, and working to establish a student-centered focus and consistent excellent education and enrichment for all students 

• Designing meaningful, relevant, and engaging library instruction – in both one-shot and embedded methods – for all courses at Broward College’s North Campus ranging in levels from non-English speakers (ex: Project RENEW, a program for recent refugee students seeking entry into higher education) to accelerated/ dual enrollment students (ex: College Academy) to first-year composition courses to discipline-specific research-based courses (ex: Nursing Research for Associates in Nursing, Bachelor's for Teacher Education Program)  

• Providing reference and instruction services in a joint-use public/academic setting, serving diverse populations including the public library patrons for the Coconut Creek/ Pompano Beach area  

• Creating, evaluating, and revising video content for instruction to support student learning, use of library resources for research/ supporting course outcomes, and faculty training and development (e.g., micro lectures, screencasting, tours, accessing eReources, etc.) - available on my YouTube channel 

• Developing student-centered programming to support student success and foster community in partnership with academic departments and with the public library including Human Library for the North Campus English Department’s annual wRites of Spring literary festival, learning activities to support inclusion of annual common read book in multi-disciplinary courses for College Read, developing the Social Justice project for the Honors College, and creating the Black Lives Matter libguide to support campus faculty and, later, to support anti-racist education and response in 2020 

• Creating and facilitating professional development for faculty and other employees  for college’s Center for Teaching Excellence & Learning in face to face and online modalities—covered topics include copyright 101 for remote instruction, contextualization of information literacy across subject areas, social justice pedagogy, and MLA and APA style updates 

• Leveraging partnerships through and beyond Broward College to support the Education Pathway: connecting the Teacher Education Program with the Broward County Public Schools: Computer Science + Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (CS + STEM) team and designing learning activities linking Education course content with College Read program 

• Collection development responsibilities for Education and Nursing/ Health Sciences in the North Regional/ Broward College Library to support program accreditation, student research and career needs, student engagement initiatives, and public library patron use  

• Promoting library services and resources through meaningful connections with community partners beyond the college (ex: inviting Proquest blogs to feature our Human Library event and connecting partners for Poems for Parkland: Poetry for Peace event and coordinating with PBS South Florida for a screening of “The Pushouts” for the Education Pathway)   

• Collaborating with public library partners as with the adoption of Choice Reviews for faculty engagement in collection development (2015-16), the five-part Media Literacy Series (2017), the ongoing Human Library annual spring event (2015-present), designing programs open to students and the local community (ex: knitting club, College Read film screenings and literacy workshops, the un-titled Reads book club, PBS South Florida film screenings), and regularly presenting for the Film & Discussion Series (2017-present) 

Associate Instructor

Aug 2013 to Jul 2015

Miami Dade College—Medical Campus Library

Miami, FL  

• • • Delivering point-of-need reference and research instruction for medical technician students and faculty in two-year, four-year, and certificate programs

    • Collection and acquisitions (print and eBook) for Health Information Technology, Medical Assisting, Phlebotomy, Pharmacy Assistant, Massage Therapy, and Career Collection, and curator of iPad medical apps collection, and integral participation in the college-wide Collection Development Workgroup

    • Service Area supervisor at Medical Center Campus Library

Information Literacy Instructor

Jun 2013 to Aug 2015

Miami Dade College—North Campus Library

Miami, FL                                                                                                                                                 

• • • Library instruction for introduction to library services and collections

    • Creating library guides for introduction to Miami Dade College North Campus Library, Literature subject research, and career literacy

    • Reference services and point-of-need information literacy instruction 

Temporary Reference Librarian

Apr 2013 to Jun 2013

Nova Southeastern University—Oceanography Center Library 

Dania Beach, FL                                                                                                                                                 

• • • Inventory of print and electronic periodicals collections, and reference and other student-facing services of graduate Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences students and faculty 

Temporary Reference Librarian

Nov 2012 to Jun 2013

Nova Southeastern University—Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Technology Information Center

Davie, FL                                                                                                                                                  

• • • Reference desk services at Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Services—a joint-use library—for graduate, distance, undergraduate, faculty, and Broward County public residents

    • Face-to-face, telephone, email, and chat reference for Nova Southeastern University

    • Ask-a-Librarian Collaborative Desk virtual chat reference services for state-wide academic and public libraries

Graduate Fieldwork Intern

May 2012 to Jul 2012

Florida International University—Green Library, Modesto A. Maidique Campus  

Miami, FL  

• • • Developing online instructional materials and lesson plans for high school and lower division college students highlighting the FIU Digital Collections, specifically Miami Metropolitan Archives and Everglades Digital Library

    • Academic reference and public service

Teaching Experience 

Florida Teacher Certification Exam, General Knowledge Essay

Fall 2017-2022

Broward College, Continuing Education                                                                               

Information Literacy in Your Course Design

Fall 2016-Fall 2017

Broward College, Center for Teaching Excellence & Learning 

Consulting & Advising Experience

• • One Small Step Library Advisor, StoryCorps/ One Small Step, Fall/ Winter 2024 

    • Co-facilitated and hosted "One Small Step from StoryCorps for Libraries," Dec 2024

  • Library programming consultant for Latino Poetry from Library of America, May 2024

    • Presented "Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs" for library grantees

Additional Experience 

Director of Education

Apr 2007 to Apr 2012

Sylvan Learning Center—West Kendall Center 

Miami, FL  

• • • Preparing and delivering training presentations for South Florida region directors on web tools, marketing, labor and staff management, productivity, and center planning

    • Developing business plans annually/quarterly for learning center, monthly labor allocations, budgeted spending for supplies and P&Ls

    • Building partnerships with educational organizations as well as with individual teachers, principals/asst. principals, counselors, and reading specialists

    • Event planning for driving business, such as Read Across America event in March 2011 that brought a $20,000 return on investment to Sylvan South Florida

    • Staff administration: recruiting, training, evaluating, and scheduling for staff of 15+

    • Maintaining academic quality through educational life cycle of students through ongoing instructional management

Consultant/ Clinician

Apr 2005 to Apr 2007

Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes 

Coral Gables, FL 

• Delivering 1:1 decoding, encoding, comprehension, and communication tutoring for learners with sensory processing disorders/ exceptionalities including but not limited to dyslexia, hyperlexia, speech and language delays, auditory processing disorders and/or disabilities, autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder, etc. through the LBLP Seeing Stars and Visualizing and Verbalizing programs

• Administering language fluency and comprehension assessment for prospective students and current students to determine placement and identifying learning goals and curriculum flow

• Communicating with parents and associated care network (including psychologists, counselors, school personnel, etc.) of students about learning/ instructional progress

• Staff administration: recruiting, training, evaluating, and scheduling for staff of 15+

• Maintaining academic quality through educational life cycle of students through ongoing instructional management

Languages 

English: Native Language 

Spanish: Fluent Listener, Conversationally Proficient