Knowledge is Power

“When I was a kid, I played librarian all the time. I had little cards and everything, but then I kind of moved away from that. I felt it was very ‘oh, you like to read, everybody expects you to be a librarian’ or whatever. I wasn't into that. I was an exchange student in high school with a host family in Mexico. In 2016 I supervised American students who went to Mexico and stayed for a month. [We had] classes in the morning to learn Spanish, and then we would have cultural activities and be out in the community too. I then became a full-time Spanish teacher. I was always having my students do research in the library. The librarian at Valley Heights, where I taught at that time, said ‘have you ever thought about going to library school?’ And I was like ‘that's interesting,’ and that's what ended up happening. Not only do I now have an advisory, which I really love, I also supervise students taking online classes both for high school credit and college credit. I've been a K-12 librarian, and I really like the younger kids, but I do enjoy middle and high school the most. I think if money wasn't a factor, I would want to have some kind of organization that set up tours for students to go to different countries to travel around and widen their perspectives. It's just fascinating what you can do with not very much knowledge of a language.”