Presenter Info
Leah Morin
An Information Literacy Librarian at Michigan State University, Leah Morin (she/her) primarily provides instruction to first-year writing students. She aims to affirm the knowledge students bring with them to college and demystify the academic research experience. Her research interests revolve around incorporating the feminist ethic of care and emergent strategy concepts in teaching, topics on which she has published and presented.
Hazel McClure
Hazel McClure (she/her), Head of Liberal Arts Programs at Grand Valley State University, has extensive experience as a library liaison. Co-author and editor of Engaging Students through Campus Libraries: High-Impact Learning Models (2020, Libraries Unlimited) and co-editor of Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians (2015, ACRL Press), her scholarship has explored high-impact practices and information literacy, planning information literacy instruction with the ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education in mind, collaboration with faculty, disrupting perfectionism, mindfulness in libraries, and teaching information literacy in professional writing contexts. She lives and works on the land of the People of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi.
Vanessa Arce
Vanessa Arce is Head of Reference at Lehman College, City University of New York. In addition to coordinating reference services, she is subject librarian for Spanish, French, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Her research focuses on virtual reference services, information literacy, and the teaching that takes place during reference interactions. She holds an MS in Information Studies from University at Buffalo, an MA in French from Middlebury College, and a BA in Psychology from University of Puerto Rico.
Liana Bayne-Lin
Liana Bayne-Lin is a Science & Math Librarian and Assistant Professor at James Madison University Libraries. Her interdisciplinary research interests include reflective, joyful, and inclusive pedagogy, STEM education, student success and wellbeing, and more. Outside work, she can often be found wrangling her two Australian Cattle Dogs, studying ballet and modern dance, serving on Massanutten Regional Library’s Board of Trustees, or relaxing with a fantasy novel.
Charlie Bennett
Charlie Bennett is the Public Engagement Librarian and a member of the Academic Engagement department at the Georgia Tech Library. He has been a librarian at the Georgia Tech Library for thirteen years and has worked at the Library for a total of twenty-six years. He earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics (1998) and Science, Technology, Culture (2000) from Georgia Tech and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Valdosta State University (2011). His research interests include the role of the library in liberal democracies and the efficacy of cross-disciplinary scholarly communication. He co-hosts the research-library rock’n’roll radio show “Lost in the Stacks” on WREK Atlanta.
Kristina Bush
Kristina Bush (she/her) is the Library Experience Manager at Boston University Libraries. Colloquially known as the swag manager, she welcomes students to the library through outreach and programming. Kristina loves to learn about critical pedagogy, active learning, and design thinking applications in libraries—and emergent strategy, of course! Outside of work, Kristina loves to read, bike, and bask in the sun.
Ery Caswell
Ery Caswell is a Student Success and Engagement Librarian by practice and a public librarian at heart. He participated in the 2025 Library Freedom Institute cohort and the inaugural cohort of the Radical Librarianship Institute at the California Rare Book School of UCLA, exploring the intersections of activism, politics, and information democracy within librarianship. Ery has nourished multi-genre library writing groups for eight years and published in a smattering of literary journals. More recently, he has explored oral history and memory work, complementing public writing groups, as conduits for liberatory narrative and communal healing. He believes everyone has a story to tell and deserves the space and support to find their language for it (including you!) Currently, he is working towards his MA in Human Rights and dreaming up further possibilities for rad librarian work beyond institutional roadblocks. Drop a line (or several!) at ery@beyondthestacks.com.
Liz Chenevey
Liz Chenevey (she/her) is a mom, gardener, quilter, writer, and academic librarian. She currently works as a liaison librarian to behavioral studies programs and greatly values the relationships she has built with faculty and students in these departments. Her pedagogy and reference work are informed by feminist ethics of care and emergent strategy principles, which are also themes she explores in her scholarship.
Kristina Clement
Kristina Clement (MA, MSIS) is the Assistant Director of Academic Engagement & Instruction for the Collegiate Librarians at Kennesaw State University Libraries and is the co-founder of, and currently the chief human resources officer for, the Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education. Her research agenda encompasses equitable outreach, organizational change in academic libraries, empathetic leadership, and the faux equity of the one-shot instruction session. Kristina is also working on a Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership and Practice from the University of North Georgia.
Joanna Gray
Joanna Gray is a Student Success Librarian at Tufts University with an interest in critical information literacy, active learning, universal design for learning, and welcoming new students into the library. Outside of the library, she loves spending time with her family and dog, live music, and easy hikes.
Samantha Kannegiser
Samantha Kannegiser is Student Success Librarian for Rutgers University-Camden, a position that allows her to work closely with new undergraduate students throughout their time at the university. Her research includes the impact of different library orientation formats on new student knowledge, confidence, and anxiety.
Mai Lu
Mai Lu (she/her) is an Asian-Canadian librarian working to foster inclusion and belonging in libraries. In work, Mai has spent over 20 years helping people and building community in public and academic libraries. As the Head, Public Services and Outreach at the University of Toronto Mississauga Library, Mai enhances teaching and learning through reference services, circulation services and outreach. Mai is grateful to have had the opportunity to collaborate with Reece Steinberg, Arvind Kang, and Samantha Kruger, an amazing team of creative, intelligent, and insightful co-authors. In life, Mai enjoys exploring food and culture from around the world with her husband, and spending time with her dog watching leaves flutter in gentle winds and observing ants marching along their daily activities.
Samantha Minnis
Samantha Minnis lives in Grand Rapids, MI with her husband Mark, and their cats and dog. She is a Humanities Liaison Librarian at Grand Valley State University where she gets to put her curiosity into practice every day. She works primarily with the School of Communication and the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Her librarian research interests include empowering students as researchers, the research process itself, and feminist pedagogy. Her at home research interests include gardening, food preservation, soap making, and knitting. She is currently learning how to sew and her sourdough starter’s name is Dolly Starton.
Chloe Raub
Chloe Raub is an archivist devoted to the interdisciplinary practices of feminist pedagogy, critical information literacy, and liberatory memory work. She holds a BA in Anthropology and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Tulane University, an MA in Anthropology and Museum Studies from George Washington University, and an MSLIS with an emphasis in Cultural Heritage Information Management from Catholic University. Chloe served as Head of the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Collection from 2015 to 2023. She is a contributor to the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online digital guide and co-author in an accompanying book of the same name. Chloe is a co-editor of the Library Juice Press Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies series and serves on the planning committee for the biennial colloquium inspired by the series, both intended to foster dialogue on the information science profession and its locus among the intersections of gender, queerness, race, and sexuality.
Stacy Rollstin-Weiland
Stacy Rollstin-Weiland is an academic librarian who weaves together scholarship, curiosity, and a touch of everyday magic to guide others through the ever-shifting labyrinth of information. With undergraduate degrees in History and Religious Studies and a Master’s in Library and Information Science, she believes knowledge is a kind of magic to be shared by all. Stacy sees information literacy as both a skill and a form of empowerment, helping students learn the “spells” of research: the arts of questioning, seeking, and discerning. Grounded in a belief in equity and social justice, she’s dedicated to making libraries welcoming spaces where all voices matter and where learning can spark transformation.
Mary Ruge
Mary Ruge is a liaison librarian at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. She loves teaching and taking every opportunity to remind students that they bring their own wealth of knowledge to the classroom. For her, being a librarian means connecting people to information, to confidence, to curiosity, to other people, and to themselves. Other things that make Mary excited to get up in the morning: her cats, fostering animals, comics (the medium), comics (the people), trivia, learning new things, meeting new people, using words like “plethora” and knowing she learned it from watching Three Amigos, and the possibility that she will meet a dog today!
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