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Friday, June 15 • 11:00am - 12:30pm
Libraries Empower Incarcerated Youth

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How can libraries move beyond traditional services and empower incarcerated youth to develop transformative strategies that disrupt the narrative of incarceration as identity? This session will explore how Nashville Public Library connected incarcerated youth to media mentors, their families, and community through media-based workshops. We will explore library partnerships using provided tools for identifying partners, and creating goals and strategies under the connected learning framework.
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Liz Atack

Elizabeth (Liz) Atack works at Nashville Public Library (NPL), where she oversees Bringing Books to Life (BBTL), a literacy outreach program. In addition to managing the daily and long range operations, she is on the front lines of helping kids learn (and love!) to read, juggling story times, trainings for teachers and adult education providers, and reading workshops for parents. Under her leadership, BBTL has won local and national awards and, in 2014, she was named the Toyota Family Teacher of the Year by the National Center for Families Learning. Before coming to NPL, Liz was a teacher and museum educator. She graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and possesses a master’s degree in Childhood Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education in New York City., Nashville Public Library BBTL
Elizabeth (Liz) Atack works at Nashville Public Library (NPL), where she oversees Bringing Books to Life (BBTL), a literacy outreach program. In addition to managing the daily and long range operations, she is on the front lines of helping kids learn (and love!) to read, juggling... Read More →
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Klem-Mari Cajigas

Family Literacy Coordinator for Bringing Books to Life, Nashville Public Library BBTL
Klem-Marí Cajigas has been with Nashville Public Library since 2012, after more than a decade of academic training in Religious Studies and Ministry, including doctoral work at Vanderbilt University. As the Family Literacy Coordinator for Bringing Books to Life!, Nashville Public... Read More →
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Raemona Little Taylor

Raemona is the Teen and Adult Services librarian at the Fairfax branch of the Marin County Free Library in Northern California. While working at Nashville Public Library as a teen librarian, she was awarded a 2015 LRNG Educator Innovator grant from the National Writing Project, the MacArthur Foundation, and John Legend’s Show Me Campaign to bring connected learning into the Woodland Hills juvenile detention center. In 2016, Raemona was named an American Library Association Emerging Leader., Marin County Free Library
Raemona is the Teen and Adult Services librarian at the Fairfax branch of the Marin County Free Library in Northern California. While working at Nashville Public Library as a teen librarian, she was awarded a 2015 LRNG Educator Innovator grant from the National Writing Project, the... Read More →
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Niq Tognoni

Studio NPL Manager, Nashville Public Library
Niq began working for the innovative Digital Youth Network in 2010 as a mentor at the Chicago Public Library's YOUmedia learning lab space. A background in performance arts and education attracted him to the research-based learning models that guided the creation of the "Connected... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 118
  Strategy Session

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