2023 Winners
Sabrina Dyck
Sabrina Dyck serves as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Lawson State Community College, a public, historically black community college with campuses in Bessemer and Birmingham, Alabama. She joined the faculty at Lawson State in the fall of 2018, where she served as the liaison to the English and Humanities Departments. In 2022, she assumed responsibility for leading the library’s information literacy program. Prior to serving at Lawson State Community College, she served as the liaison to the Behavior and Social Science Division at Tallahassee Community College. She is a former ALA Spectrum Scholar, ARL Kaleidoscope Fellow, and CLIR/DLF Authenticity Fellow. She earned a BA in History and an M.Ed in Secondary Social Science Education from the University of Montevallo and completed her MLIS from The University of Alabama.
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Neah Ingram-Monteiro
Neah (she/her) is a Teaching and Learning Librarian at Western Washington University. She provides one-shots and collection development for the College of the Environment, the College of Science and Engineering, and Psychology and Neuroscience. As part of the learning community in the library’s integrated Research and Writing Studio, she has led professional development on citational politics, STEM writing, and creating positionality statements. She co-created the Salish Sea Curriculum Repository, an OER repository for place- and land-based learning objects. Neah is especially interested in connecting with other library workers who are interested in critical information literacy.
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Kiana Webster
Kiana Webster is the Social Sciences and History Librarian at University of North Carolina Wilmington. She graduated with an MLIS from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021, where she was the Rare Book Outreach and Engagement CALA. Some of her many research interests include (1) making the under-archived stories of marginalized people a part of public consciousness, (2) decolonizing the social sciences, (3) improving the comfort of marginalized groups in library spaces, and (4) boosting student confidence through empowering instruction. She has two forthcoming ACRL book chapters to look out for between 2024-2025: one in How to Work with Academic Faculty and one in Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline. She can be found on Twitter @LibraryKiana.
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Previous Recipients
The William & Mary Libraries Travel Grant helps someone from an underrepresented and/or marginalized group attend the conference by providing financial assistance. Underrepresented and/or marginalized groups are identified in accordance with the ALA’s Office of Diversity recruitment resources. Prior to 2020 the award was called The Innovative Library Classroom Travel Grant.
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