TCDL 2023 Keynote Speaker

Sofia Leung

Sofia Leung, she / her, is an author, librarian, facilitator, and educator committed to social justice in libraries and higher education. She is a first-generation Chinese American focused on building community among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in libraries and beyond.

Leung brings to TCDL 2023 a vision and understanding of the future of librarianship where we work to dismantle white supremacy and racism in our daily work and library systems as part of our day-to-day rather than a task to be checked off. As librarians and information professionals, Leung aims for us not to be gatekeepers to knowledge or collections but to work as architects to build bridges and connect people to vast knowledges held on Earth.

Leung is co-editor with Jorge López-McKnight of “Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory,” to demand using Critical Race Theory to reframe the racial powers within librarianship. Leung is a former editor at the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe and founding editor of up//root: a We Here publication. Through her work with We Here and other platforms, Leung works to provide a safe and supportive community for Black and Indigenous folks and People of Color (BIPOC) in library and information science (LIS) professions and educational programs. She facilitates discussion that recognizes and intervenes in systemic social issues that have plagued BIPOC professionals both currently and historically and will bring the discussion to her keynote address at TCDL 2023.

Learn more about Sofia Leung at https://www.sofiayleung.com/.

TCDL 2023 Open Plenary & Keynote
May 16 @ 1:30 pm
Commons Conference Center, Austin, Texas
Registration for TCDL 2023 is now closed.