Information, power, and reproductive health – part 1

Presenter Info

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (she/her) is Associate Professor and Science Librarian at Grinnell College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator who writes about critical information literacy in academic libraries and the gender and racial dynamics at play in information work more broadly. Her work has appeared in Exploring Equitable and Inclusive Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners, Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, Communications in Information Literacy, College & Research Libraries, Library Trends, and Keywords in (Critical) Library Information Science/Studies (forthcoming). Most notably, she authored the widely cited “The Legacy of Lady Bountiful: White Women in the Library” (2016) and edited Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science (2017).

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Alanna Aiko Moore

Alanna Aiko Moore is the Librarian for Sociology, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Alanna holds a bachelor of arts in Sociology/Anthropology and Gender Studies from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, and a master’s of Library and Information Science from Dominican University. Alanna has published book chapters and articles on queer parenting, cross cultural mentoring, emotional labor, activism, and issues affecting women of color librarians. She has worked in academic libraries for over 15 years and has presented at numerous conferences and organizations. Before librarianship, she worked at social justice-centered non-profits and community organizations.

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Renée A. Rau

Renée A. Rau is an Information Services Librarian at University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library and the liaison to the Keck School of Medicine. She earned a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree at San José State University (SJSU), in 2020. In 2017, she earned an MA in 20th-century United States history, specializing in women’s and gender history, from Washington State University (WSU). Her current research interests include: Evidence Based Practice and information literacy instruction; Graphic Medicine and health humanities; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in health sciences librarianship.

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Latona Giwa

Latona Giwa (she/they) is a birth justice advocate, Registered Nurse, full spectrum doula, and IBCLC lactation consultant based in New Orleans, LA. Latona is currently the Executive Director of Repro TLC, a national provider training non-profit, and previously co-founded Birthmark Doula Collective

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Emily Vardell

Emily Vardell (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University. Her research interests focus on information behavior, including health insurance literacy and infertility information practices.

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Brenda Linares

Brenda Linares (she,ella) is Associate Dean of Library Services at UMKC Libraries, University of Missouri – Kansas City. She has over 15 years experience in health sciences librarianship with emphasis is outreach, consumer and patient education, leadership, evidence-based research, and diversity.

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Mondo Vaden

Mondo Vaden (He/They) is a DeafBlackTrans Intersectional Librarian, artist, and activist. He is the founding Librarian of the Library of Intersectionality and runs a DEIA consultancy and independent research and information business as Mondo Connections.

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Jennifer Marino

Jennifer Marino (she/they) is a first-year psychiatry resident at the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital. They are a graduate of UMass Chan Medical School, where they led a reproductive justice campaign to incorporate abortion care into the medical school’s curriculum.

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Emerson Meinhart

Emerson Meinhart (he/they) is the Research Services Coordinator for Tomlinson Library at Colorado Mesa. He is currently working on his master’s in Gender Women and Sexuality studies at ASU, with an eye towards reproductive and health care advocacy for transgender people.

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Margaret Ansell

Margaret Ansell is the Nursing & Consumer Health Liaison Librarian and Associate Chair for the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. She is passionate about empowering health consumers, nurses, and librarians to understand and conduct research to improve health and advocate for their health needs and professional interests.

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Jane Morgan-Daniel

Jane Morgan-Daniel (she/her) is the Community Engagement and Health Literacy Liaison Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. Her research interests include social justice in health sciences librarianship, accessibility, and health literacy. 

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Tanesa King

Tanesa King (she/her) is a cataloging librarian at Binghamton University (SUNY) and is a recent transplant from Texas to New York. Her research interests include radical and critical cataloging, slow librarianship, trauma-informed librarianship, and reproductive/sexual health and bodily autonomy resources and their cataloging.