2022-2023 Board members from left to right, Vanessa Reyes, Alicia K. Long, Isabel Castro, and Mari Martinez Serrano.
About JCLC: The Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC, Inc.) formed in June, 2015 as a nonprofit organization that advocates for and addresses the common needs of the American Library Association ethnic affiliates.
Thanks to a generous member of our chapter, REFORMA de Florida was able to offer some help to MLIS students wishing to attend the upcoming IV Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) which will take place in our state on October 5-9, 2022. The JCLC Stipend consisted of a financial contribution to pay for the conference’s registration, plus a student membership for REFORMA.
We received great applications from very deserving MLIS students. Our “JCLC Stipend Team” had a really hard time picking a winner, but we finally selected Maria Feliciano, a student at the University of South Florida-School of Information, who is also an active participant of the School’s SOLIS (student organizations). In addition to writing a very compelling essay, Maria is very committed to diversity and to serve Latinx populations as a librarian. She has been promoting REFORMA to other students at USF, and she will benefit from attending a conference with members of other associations of librarians of color, such as the Black Caucus of ALA (BCALA), the Asian Pacific American Library Association (APALA), the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), and the American Indian Libraries Association (AILA).
Maria will share her takeaways from the Conference with all of us. Stay tuned!
Congratulations, Maria Feliciano!
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