2024 Core Forum

Dr. Elizabeth Johnson is an Associate Professor/Assistant Library Director of Operations and Planning at Tennessee State University. She is the author of Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women’s Hair Styling and co-author of Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas. In her employment inside and outside the academy, she has valued participating in and organizing activities around DEI. She argues that a means of meeting DEI is by promoting awareness. Awareness is developed through the patrons’ exposure to the collection (in-house and online). Awareness may initially come about as a dilemma when it does not align with one’s understanding of the world but then grows to reshape one’s meaning, perspective, and belief systems.