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Opening Keynote
Opening Keynote
Antonia (Toni) Olivas is the Education and Sociology Librarian at California State University San Marcos.
She earned her master’s in library science at the University of Arizona where she was a proud member of the first Knowledge River Scholar cohort and a 2002 Spectrum Scholar.
Dr. Olivas earned her doctorate in educational leadership from the University of California San Diego/California State University San Marcos.
Her research focuses on the motivation to lead of underrepresented minority academic librarians, social justice and equity in academic libraries, and cultural intelligence in the classroom.
Closing Keynote
Juleah Swanson is the Head of Acquisition Services for the University Libraries and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Her research interests include exploring racial, ethnic, and professional identity theory in academic librarianship.
With her research partners Isabel Gonzalez-Smith (University of Illinois Chicago) and Azusa Tanaka (University of Washington), she has published on diversity and identity theory in the Librarian Stereotype and In the Library with the Lead Pipe, as well as is working on a forthcoming research on identity theory and academic librarians of color.
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