Maria Rios

Maria Rios is a Humanities Research Services Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who is committed to dismantling all forms of oppression while centering and amplifying historically marginalized voices. She earned her MLIS from the University of South Carolina, and is recognized as an Association of Research Libraries Kaleidoscope Scholar 2016–2018 cohort, she is also a member of the fourth class of Library Freedom Institute, a Library Freedom Project initiative. She has co-authored two book chapters, “Vision, Voices, and Self-care in academic library residencies” (Residencies Revisited Reflections on Library Residency Programs from the Past and Present, 2022) and “Dewhitening Librarianship: A Policy Proposal for Libraries (Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, 2021).

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...