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
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Mae Lipscomb Rodney
Library Director, Winston-Salem State University (retired)
![Headshot of Alex Poole](https://sils.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1369/2023/10/SILS_Alumni_Poole.jpg)
Alex Poole
Diversity Representative of SILS Alumni Board
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Jennifer Manning
Senior Research Librarian Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
![Headshot of Gerald Holmes](https://sils.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1369/2024/05/SILS_SAID_Holmes.jpg)
Gerald Holmes
Professor and Diversity Coordinator, University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Linwood Webster
Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Saianand Balu
Director of Informatics, Lineberger Cancer Center
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Sayan Chakraborty
Strategic Advisor, Nunam
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Lewis Church
Principal software developer, SAS Institute Inc.
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Teresa Church
Proprietor, LTC Consulting
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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
![Sandra Hughes-Hassell](https://sils.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1369/2023/10/SILS_Faculty_Hughes-Hassel.jpg)
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.
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Irene Owens
SAID Chair; Dean and Professor (retired), School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University
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Carla Davis-Castro
Senior Research Librarian, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
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Benito Luciano
Lead Multimedia Engineer, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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Anita Jotwani
Immediate Past President of SILS Alumni Board; Senior Director of Product Management for Data & Analytics, Senior Director of User Experience (Interim), ModMed