DEIA Spotlights

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From left: Monika Lehman and Jennifer Coggins
May 8, 2025
Archivists Jennifer Coggins and Monika Lehman—with fellow members of the Reparative Archival Description (RAD) Working Group —work to improve the quality, accuracy, and accessibility of the library’s archival records. As co-chairs of RAD, they and the seven other members identify harmful or outdated language in the library’s vast repository of finding aids—the tools that describe the contents and organization of a collection. RAD’s goal is to update, contextualize, and improve the accuracy of the object descriptions in the finding aids, which scholars rely upon while conducting their research
Irene Jazowick
March 27, 2025
Irene Jazowick, a member of the library’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) Advisory Committee, also advises the Yale Repertory Theatre on the services it provides for audience members in the Deaf community.
March 10, 2025
Lakeisha Robinson is manager of the engineering operations team in the library’s IT department and is a member of the Yale African American Affinity Group (YAAA) Frederick has served as one of the inaugural advisors for the Yale Latino Networking Group, helping to provide funding for leadership conferences.
February 5, 2025
Mark Bailey, head of the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, oversees the nearly 280,000 historical sound recordings in Yale Library’s collection.
January 9, 2025
The new residency program, now in its second year, has set ambitious goals—both to advance library-wide DEIA efforts and to support the success of the selected Flash Resident—to fulfill the legacy of librarian Kenya Flash.
Portrait of Riley in white frame in front of a neutral wall
December 4, 2024
Charles Riley, catalog librarian for African Languages, is the first cataloger in the United States to add Ethiopic script to a bibliographic record.
African American gentleman in a taupe dressshirt with with dark hair and beard smiling in front of a large wooden door in the courtyard.
November 8, 2024
Nicholas “Nick” Wantsala, inaugural Kenya S. Flash Librarian Resident, shares the highlights of his busy first year in the library and the New Haven community.