{"id":4372,"date":"2018-05-08T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ripl.lrs.org\/data-pathways\/?page_id=4372"},"modified":"2018-12-10T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:03:09","slug":"meet-the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ripleffect.org\/data-pathways\/meet-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team: EL Group I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrom left to right (Crystal Chen, Tracy Drake, Aurelia Mandani, A.J. Muhammad, and Claire Nickerson)
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<\/span>Crystal Chen<\/span><\/h2>\n

Crystal Chen is a Young Adult Librarian at the Woodstock Library branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL). She holds a BA in fine arts from Amherst College, an MFA in printmaking from SUNY New Paltz, and a MSLIS from Pratt Institute. She has served on NYPL\u2019s Best Books for Teens Committee (2016 and 2017) and NYPL\u2019s YA Advisory Committee (2018).<\/p>\n

<\/span>Tracy Drake<\/span><\/h2>\n

Tracy\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Drake is an archivist at the Chicago Public Library. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a BS in African American Studies, a MA in history from Roosevelt University and a MSLIS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also one of the founding board members for Project Back-Up foundation, an organization that helps community members preserve their family history. Outside of work she enjoys traveling, exploring new places in the city of Chicago, reading and hanging out with her favorite 9-year-old.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Aurelia Mandani<\/span><\/h2>\n

Aurelia Mandani (she\/her\/hers) is a systems administrator through Cherokee Nations Service Group at NOAA Boulder. Aurelia holds a BA\u00a0in Political Science and International Studies, along with a MLIS from the University of Denver. She is also a Gates Millennium Scholar (cohort 2010), and is currently working on her PhD in CSIS (computer science and information systems) at the University of Colorado at Denver.<\/p>\n

<\/span>A.J. Muhammad<\/span><\/h2>\n

A.J. Muhammad is a Librarian in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL).<\/p>\n

<\/span>Claire Nickerson<\/span><\/h2>\n

Claire<\/span>\u00a0Nickerson is the Learning Initiatives and Open Educational Resources librarian at Fort Hays State University. She provides research help and information literacy instruction and assists faculty in in implementing zero-cost course materials in the classroom. She also teaches introductory research and writing skills (and, soon, data literacy) to graduate students in the Masters of Liberal Studies program.<\/p>\n

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\nGo to ALA Poster Presentation<\/a>\n Meet the Team<\/a>\n Find Your Data Pathway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From left to right (Crystal Chen, Tracy Drake, Aurelia Mandani, A.J. Muhammad, and Claire Nickerson) Image credit: American Libraries Magazine 2018 Crystal Chen is a Young Adult Librarian at the Woodstock Library branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL). She holds a BA in fine arts from Amherst College, an MFA in printmaking from… <\/p>\n

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