This Pima County librarian prides herself on connecting teens with resources and books, and helping young people define who they are.
My first foray into librarianship came in May 2019 while interning at Marvel Entertainment in New York. I was tasked with helping keep their comic book archive neat and orderly. If someone wanted a comic, they had to come see me. The organizer of the dorm set aside for summer interns said, “Who knew something so boring could lead to something so cool?”Libraries started being cool when I was in first grade and the staff at the Murphy-Wilmot Library hung my artwork in their children’s section.
Three years later, I returned to Tucson and tried to figure out what was next. I saw an ad on Facebook for a school where one could earn their master’s degree in library and information science. I thought, “What if?” At an event during alumni weekend in San Antonio, back at Trinity University, I spoke to a former professor, who had written a letter of recommendation for me.Before I could finish, she remarked, “Oh, I think you are a little bit.” She never dismissed the idea that libraries were places of rebellion.
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