SAID Committee
The SILS Alumni Inclusion and Diversity (SAID) Committee endeavors to increase involvement and engagement of SILS minority alumni by strategically advising the Dean and School, developing a smart, sustainable, and scalable plan in consultation with the Dean and other representatives from the School, and helping to implement the plan and inviting other SILS alumni to participate.
Committee Members
Jennifer Manning
Senior Research Librarian Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Gerald Holmes
Professor and Diversity Coordinator, University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Linwood Webster
Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Saianand Balu
Director of Informatics, Lineberger Cancer Center
Sayan Chakraborty
Strategic Advisor, Nunam
Lewis Church
Principal software developer, SAS Institute Inc.
Teresa Church
Proprietor, LTC Consulting
Lori Harris
Assistant Director of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library and the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions at the University of Cincinnati
Mae Lipscomb Rodney
Library Director, Winston-Salem State University (retired)
Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Multi-cultural children's literature, children's services, school library media, social justice issues in youth library services, role of school librarians in education reform.
Irene Owens
SAID Chair Dean and Professor (retired), School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University
Carla Davis-Castro
Senior Research Librarian, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Benito Luciano
Lead Multimedia Engineer, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Anita Jotwani
Immediate Past President of SILS Alumni Board, Senior Director of Product Management for Data & Analytics, Senior Director of User Experience (Interim), ModMed