The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Scholarships and Awards Committee is excited to announce the recipients of the 2022 APALA JCLC Travel Award: Ellen-Rae Cachola, Claire Imamura, and Ruth Xing!
APALA’s JCLC 2022 Travel Grant will provide the receiving APALA members with up to $1000 each in funding to attend the 2022 Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC). APALA is excited for this year’s grant awardees to have the opportunity to network and gain professional development at this national convening of BIPOC information workers. Congratulations!
Ellen-Rae Cachola
Ellen-Rae Cachola is the Evening Supervisor & Archives Manager at the University of Hawaiʻi School of Law Library. She is also a Lecturer for the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Ellen-Rae preserves and curates archives on Hawaiʻi’s legal histories and their impact on indigenous and immigrant working class peoples. She also researches and teaches about the history of militarism across Oceania and women-led organizing toward peace-driven economies. Read more about her work at https://ellenraec.weebly.com/cv.html.
Claire Imamura
Claire Imamura (she/her) is a Japanese American librarian from Juneau, Alaska. She worked for the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums for ten years and recently moved to the Washington State Library. Outside of the library, she enjoys jogging, slow fashion, and baking and eating cookies.
Ruth Xing
Ruth Xing is currently pursuing their master’s degree in library and information science at Syracuse University. Ruth is an aspiring medieval studies librarian/archivist, researcher, and professor; in these capacities, Ruth hopes to serve international learners and scholars and to manage and contribute to medieval scholarship in multiple settings.