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Honored guests include Safiya Umoja Noble, Ph.D library scholar/researcher, award-winning author of Algorithms of Oppression, and recent MacArthur Genius Awardee. Meredith Evans, Ph.D. is the Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. In 2015 Evans became the first African American woman to be appointed as a presidential library director and in 2018 the 74th President of the Society of American Archivists (SAA). Ms. Tracie D. Hall is the first African American woman hired to lead the American Library Association (ALA) as Executive Director. ALA is the largest professional library organization with a membership totaling close to sixty thousand members. Rounding out our panel is Nicole Cooke, Ph.D an award-winning scholar and thought leader in the areas of social justice, DEI, and misinformation/fake news. She is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina.
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Twanna
Twanna Hodge, MLIS (
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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Librarian
University of Florida Libraries
2013 Spectrum Scholar
2018 ALA Emerging Leader