Press Release – 2024 APALA Gayatri Singh Award
The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Scholarships and Awards Committee is excited to announce the recipient of the 2024 APALA Gayatri Singh Award: Ray Pun! The Committee was impressed with his current and previous DEI work, his commitment to the APALA community, and his organizing for diversity, inclusion, and justice in librarianship. This is Ray’s first APALA scholarship.
The Gayatri Singh Award is given annually in honor of Gayatri Singh, a beloved APALA member dedicated to ensuring everyone had a seat at the table. In this same spirit, the goals of the Gayatri Singh Award are to provide an APALA member with the opportunity to enhance their engagement with equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice through professional development and financial assistance and to encourage sustaining APALA membership and organizational participation through the opportunity to engage with professional opportunities that align with Gayatri Singh’s commitment to social justice.