The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Scholarships and Awards Committee has selected Gerie Ventura as the recipient of the 2014 APALA Travel Award.
Gerie Ventura is the Circulation Operations Lead at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington, where she has worked for 19 years. She is currently pursuing an MLS at the Emporia State University, Portland (OR) campus with a concentration in Leadership and Administration and expects to graduate in August 2015. Gerie is active with both the paraprofessional and training interest groups of the Washington Library Association. She serves as the Vice-Chair of the Tukwila (WA) Library Advisory board and Administrator of the Greater Seattle chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society. Gerie is a new APALA member.
APALA provides a forum for discussing problems of APA librarians and for the exchange of ideas between APA librarians and other librarians, supports and encourages library services to APA communities, recruits and mentors APA librarians in the library/information science professions, seeks funding for scholarships in library/information science master’s programs, and provides a vehicle enabling APA librarians to cooperate with other associations and organizations with similar or allied interests.
The selection committee is chaired by Tassanee Chitcharoen and co-chair Valeria Molteni and is composed of Emily Chan, Janet Clarke, Paul Lai, Christina Nhek, Gayatri Singh, Melanee Vicedo
Past Travel Grant Winners
Linda Nguyen (2013)
Catherine Phan (2012)
Cynthia Mari Orozco (2011)
Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozado (2010)
Sally Ma (2009)