PDA Event: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Library Staff Grant Program to Advance Equity and Inclusion

Presented by Monica Figueroa and Kristan Shawgo, University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Building an anti-racist library takes education, action, and reckoning with our past. It also takes money. As part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries’ Reckoning Initiative, the IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility) Action grant program provides funding for staff projects that advance social justice in the Libraries. Join us to learn about how the program was developed, how it’s going, and how to advocate for a program of your own. Speakers, Monica Figueroa and Kristan Shawgo, will also share about other library-wide initiatives, like the 21-day Racial Equity Challenge.

Monica Figueroa (she/her) is Interim Librarian for Inclusive Excellence at the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is chair of the Libraries’ IDEA Council and ex officio of the IDEA Action Committee.

Kristan Shawgo (she/her) is a Social Sciences Librarian at the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the Libraries’ IDEA Council and chair of the IDEA Action Committee.

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Sponsored by ASERL