The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Executive Board is excited to announce the selection of Alanna Aiko Moore as its next Executive Director. Her term begins in June 2022, at the end of the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
Alanna Aiko Moore is the Librarian for Ethnic Studies, Critical Gender Studies, and Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Alanna is also the Visiting Program Officer for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Association of Research Libraries, a member at large of ALA Council and has been appointed to ALA President-Elect Lessa Pelayo-Lozada’s Advisory Committee.
Within APALA, Alanna has served as the Past President, Member at Large of the Executive Board and on numerous committees and task forces. She is passionate about serving the profession and has been a member of the ALA Steering Committee for Organizational Effectiveness and the ALA Task Force for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and has chaired the ALA Committee on Diversity. Alanna also represented APALA as a member of the Steering Committee for the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color II. She has deep involvement with the ALA Spectrum Scholarship Program, having started as a 2003 Scholar and continuing involvement through leadership on the Spectrum Jury, Spectrum Advisory Council, and the 20th Anniversary Committee. She has published and presented widely on microaggressions, intersectionality, LGBTQ identity, emotional and invisible labor, mentoring, self-care, and issues affecting women of color librarians. Prior to librarianship, she worked at social justice centered non-profits and community organizations.
The APALA Executive Board would also like to express its gratitude to Lessa Kananiʻopua Pelayo-Lozada, for her stellar leadership and continued service to the organization including as Executive Director (2019-2022) and as President (2016-2017).
In addition, the Executive Board would like to thank the APALA nominating committee members Candice (Wing-yee) Mack, Eugenia Beh, and Janet H. Clarke for leading the nomination process in search of APALA’s next Executive Director and for creating a strong slate of candidates.
The APALA Executive Director position is a three-year, renewable term, appointed by the President and approved by the Executive Board.