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BIO: Patricia Gamble, former ACE Scholar and graduate of UNCG’s MLIS program, is currently the Health Sciences Librarian at Winston-Salem State University. She also received her BA in English from Winston-Salem State University in 2006. She interned with C.G. O'Kelly Library as an ACE Scholar helping to create what is now the Information Commons. Patricia also hosts Tiny Tech Talks which are 30 minute sessions about apps, Web 2.0, and other new technologies that expose guests to the latest tools. This past summer Patricia presented at Metrolina Library Association. Her current goal is to continue to find innovative ways to collaborate with her faculty and maintain a close full-service relationship.
Patricia Gamble
​SkillShare: "Creative Searching Through Diversity"
BIO: Jennifer will graduate from UNCG in May 2013 with her MLIS. She currently works as a library assistant within the Wake County Public Library system. After graduation, she wants to go into a public library doing reference and reader's advisory services, as well as programming. With a Puerto Rican heritage, she desires to enhance cultural awareness amidst her work, to benefit her community. As an Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholar, Jennifer has participated in several conferences promoting diversity within the library profession.
Jennifer Herring
​SkillShare: "The Coqui in the Story"
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BIO: Christina Mayhand is a Library and Information Studies graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A native of Greensboro, Christina obtained her undergraduate degree in Human Development and Family Studies at UNCG. She plans to start a Toy Library in the triad area upon completion of her degree.
Christina Mayhand
​SkillShare: "The YouTube Librarian"
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BIO: Heather Hans is an MLIS student at UNCG planning to graduate in May. She is a newly minted librarian at High Point University, and her interests include instructional design, communications, marketing, outreach, and user experience. Her hobbies include running, yoga, baking, art, writing, and spending large amounts of time on etsy.com.
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BIO: Emily Graves is in her final semester at UNCG, on track to graduate with her MLIS degree in May. She is from Austin, Texas. She has undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas in broadcast journalism and English. She is aiming to work in special and federal libraries.
Heather Hans & Emily Graves
​SkillShare: "Using Ethnography in a Library Setting"
BIO: Mari Noguchi is a Library and Information Studies graduate student and an active ACE Scholar at UNCG. A native of Tokyo, Japan, Mari has been living in the US for more than 25 years. Prior to becoming a full time student, she worked at the Glenwood Branch of Greensboro Public Library for eleven years and served as a National AmeriCorps ACCESS Member at the same library by teaching English to adult immigrants and refugees through the English to Speakers of Other Languages Program. She would love to work at a public library upon graduation in May 2013.
Mari Noguchi
​SkillShare: "Cultural Sensitivity Exercise"
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BIO:
Hailing from Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Gumbs is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind educational program and the co-creator of the Mobile Homecoming experiential archive, amplifying generations of LGBTQ Black brilliance. She earned her PhD in English, Africana Studies and Women's Studies from Duke University in 2010 and is widely published in national print and online publications and scholarly journals. For more information on Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, please click here.

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Keynote Speaker
Photo Credit: www.alexispauline.com
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BIO: Rachel A. Smith will receive her MLIS in May 2013 from UNCG. As an ACE Scholar, she has worked to promote diversity recruitment and multicultural information issues in the LIS field through course creation, professional development, and action research. She holds a B.A. from North Carolina Central University in Theatre. Rachel was recently selected as a 2013 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Career Enhancement Program (CEP) Fellow and hopes to one day integrate her passion for the arts with her library education and become an arts-based research librarian.
Rachel A. Smith
​SkillShare: "Judging the Present, Respecting the Passed"
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​BIO: UNCG Fitness leadership team brings to you a group exercise program that fuses simple stretching techniques and Stress Management. This workshop teaches participants strategies in dealing with stress and the demanding job of librarianship.
UNCG Recreation Center
​SkillShare: "Lively Librarians"
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BIO: Nataly Blas is the 2012-2014 Diversity Resident Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned a B.A. in Public Relations with a minor in Hispanic Marketing and a M.S. in Library and Information Studies at Florida State University. Her research interests include reference and instruction services, diversity in librarianship, and business librarianship.


BIO: Emily Mann is a graduate of the UNCG MLIS program and currently working at Jackson Library as a reference and instruction assistant. She has a B.A. in anthropology and sociology. After earning her MLIS she spent the next year working as an English instructor at Dahongying University in Ningbo, China. This experience fostered an interest in cross-cultural communication both in and out of the library.
Nataly Blas & Emily Mann
​SkillShare: "The Culturally Relevant Reference Interview"
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​BIO: Touger Vang is an ACE Scholar and 2nd year graduate student in the UNCG Library and Information Studies program. A former refugee from Laos, Touger has worked with children from immigrant and refugee families. He currently works for the UNCG LIS Department and serves as the advisor to the UNCG Asian Students Association.
Touger Vang
​​SkillShare: "Feng Shui: The Art of Balancing a Library"
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​BIO: The UNCG student chapter of the Progressive Librarians Guild, under the direction of President April Parker, aims to create a platform for critical discourse about the intersection of libraries, politics, and culture. UNCG PLG affirms librarianship is activism. Collectively the chapter members are interested in examining the library/information field through a social justice lens, both examining and eradicating oppression. UNCG PLG is committed to providing access to a diversity of materials, alternative media, equitable distribution and free flow of information. Members are invested in becoming culturally competent librarians and information workers who are aware that it is only through collaboration, community building, and education can they truly be socially responsible and be catalysts for social change.
April Parker & UNCG Progressive Librarians Guild
​​SkillShare: "The Human Library"