Before joining ALA, she spent 15 years as executive director of the Virginia Library Association. Varga has been an ALA member for 20 years and has served on the ALA Policy Corps, Intellectual Freedom Committee, Intellectual Freedom Summit steering committee, ALA Leadership Institute, and Chapter Relations Committee. She answered our 11 Questions to introduce herself … Continue reading 11 Questions: Lisa Varga
Ladewski answered our 11 Questions to reintroduce himself to the ALA community. Coffee, tea, other? Coffee, one cup of hot coffee in the morning. What’s the first website or app you check in the morning? Weather app. On weekends, probably YouTube. Best career advice you’ve ever received? I’ve received a lot of good advice from … Continue reading 11 Questions: Bill Ladewski
She answered our 11 Questions to introduce herself to ALA members. Coffee, tea, other? Coffee—Café Bustelo What’s the first website or app you check in the morning? Notifications first, including the Katzenberger GroupMe chat, referred to by my mother-in-law as The Groupon. Best career advice you’ve ever received? Make time for thinking. Credit to Peg … Continue reading 11 Questions: Amy Katzenberger
She answered our 11 Questions to introduce herself to ALA members. Coffee, tea, other? Coffee in the morning, but sometimes a cup of chamomile lavender tea in the evening. What’s the first website or app you check in the morning? The New York Times’ Games app. I play Wordle, The Mini Crossword, Connections, Strands, and … Continue reading 11 Questions: Kerri Price
She answered our 11 Questions to introduce herself to ALA members. Coffee, tea, other? I enjoy having a cup of hot coffee with my ham and cheese omelet that I make each morning. What’s the first website or app you check in the morning? I check my family’s text messages. I usually find texts that … Continue reading 11 Questions: Julie Reese
She answered our 11 Questions to introduce herself to ALA members. Coffee, tea, other? Team Tea all the way. Mostly English Breakfast or Earl Grey, although green tea is a lovely alternative. What’s the first website or app you check in the morning? I check notifications first, but then email is the first app for … Continue reading 11 Questions: Jean Hodges
Her work has included facilitating a division-wide collaboration on bystander intervention, implementing a pilot ALSC Equity Fellowship, and executing a pilot ALSC Research Agenda Grant. Rivers received an MLIS with a certificate in youth services from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, where she was a graduate assistant in the Butler Children’s Literature Center. She … Continue reading 11 Questions: Alena Rivers
Before joining ALA, Headrick was chief technology director at Illinois CPA Society, where she helped the organization migrate to cloud-based infrastructure. Prior to that, she held multiple technology roles with the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology. Headrick has a bachelor’s in business analysis and IT project management from DePaul University and a master’s in business … Continue reading 11 Questions: Rebecca Headrick
Over the past year, Gwizdala had been serving as associate publisher of ALA Editions/ALA Neal-Schuman. In between her 15 years at ALA, she spent six years at the American Bar Association (ABA) where she was managing editor of periodicals (with readerships up to 40,000) for multiple ABA sections. She returned to ALA in 2014. Gwizdala … Continue reading 11 Questions: Angela Gwizdala
Welch has nearly 25 years of nonprofit management experience and started her career in environmental education and community engagement after receiving a master’s degree in biology. Before joining ALA, Melanie founded the Great Lakes Conservation department at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium and was a 2010 Catto fellow at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. She answered … Continue reading 11 Questions: Melanie Welch
A licensed certified public accountant, Tsourdinis holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and is a member of the Illinois CPA Society and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Tsourdinis has worked in finance at several nonprofit and educational institutions in Chicago, including UIC, SOS Children’s Villages Illinois, … Continue reading 11 Questions: Dina Tsourdinis
As ACRL’s new executive director, Malone will lead the largest of ALA’s eight divisions, which includes more than 9,000 individual and institutional members. Prior to ALA, Malone worked at the History of Science Society, where he served for 23 years, helping the organization further its advocacy goals; promote equity, diversity, and inclusion; create a fundraising … Continue reading 11 Questions: Robert “Jay” Malone
