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Adriana Blancarte-Hayward, MLIS (she/her/ella)

Senior Manager, Community Outreach and Engagement
The New York Public Library

Adriana Blancarte-Hayward is the Senior Manager of the Community Outreach and Engagement team at the New York Public Library. She earned her IMLS at The Palmer School of Library and Information Science, and holds a B.S. in Information Science Engineering from ITESM in Mexico.
A former Library volunteer and ESOL Library student, she has been with the Library for over 19 years. Connecting communities and partners with library services, resources and information is her passion. She loves to travel and learn new languages.
She currently serves as ALA Councilor-At-Large and in several REFORMA Committees. She received the 2020 Dr. Arnulfo D. Trejo Librarian of the Year (LOTY) Award. Most recently, Adriana was a member of the Services to Refugees, Immigrants, and Displaced Persons (SRIDP) Sub-Committee of the ODLOS Advisory Committee (2019-2021). She is also past-president of the REFORMA Northeast Chapter (2019-2020, alumna of Coro's 2016 Immigrant Civic Leadership Program (ICLP) and past-president of the New York Library Association Ethnic Services Roundtable (2013-2014).

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