Isabel Espinal

Isabel Espinal is a Research Services Librarian for Afro American Studies, Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Native American & Indigenous Studies, and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a past president of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, and has written and given presentations on whiteness and diversity in librarianship, information literacy, the climate crisis and libraries, Dominican women writers in the United States, and Latinx literature, among other topics.

Publications

Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework
Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework
Isabel Espinal, Anne Graham, Maria Rios, Katherine Freedman. © 2023. 19 pages.
This chapter presents a case study of how an academic library supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees with funding so these workers can find...