Críticas Magazine

But yeah, I know: it’s Monday and you’ve got things to do. So here, dear Multicultural Linksters, are the nine profiles that just might be right up your multicultural alley:

• ·        Mario Ascencio, dynamic president of REFORMA, doing brilliant work at George Mason University in D.C. after a thorough education in his beloved hometown of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula
• ·        Jim Cheng, who has assembled and promoted a world-class collection of East Asian films at UC–San Diego  
• ·        Sol Gómez, a Knowledge River grad who’s a branch manager at Pima County Public Library in Arizona
• ·        Lucía González of Broward County Library: storyteller, children’s book author, developer of bilingual story times and family literacy programs, and defender of intellectual freedom
• ·        Robin Kear, a scholar of international librarianship at Pitt who has worked in Kenya and carried out projects with South African librarians
• ·        Jennifer Nelson of Minneapolis Public Library: she saw to it that their Business Plan Builder was translated into Somali and Spanish
• ·        Annabelle Núñez at the University of Arizona and the Arizona Health Sciences Library, tirelessly promoting access to health information in Spanish and in English
• ·        Padma Polepeddi, who manages the Glendale (Colorado) Library, an immigrant from India. From her profile: Though her branch is known for its extensive Russian and Spanish-language collections, Polepeddi has expanded its diversity program, improving services to other nationalities, teens, the elderly, and people with disabilities
• ·        Jennifer Schember, coordinator of outreach for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. Her own ethnicity is German-Japanese and she has connected with many ethnic groups in her area and dramatically increased Heritage Month programming, with additional Heritage months honoring the county's Asian Pacific Americans and Native Americans, seniors, and GLBTs