Program Manager of Youth, Family, & Equity Services
San Diego Public Library
Ady Huertas has career in library services that spans over 26 years at San Diego Public Library. She is the Program Manager of Youth, Family, & Equity Services where she executes large scale public programs and contributes to library initiatives and policies with a special focus on equity and the impact on youth. Huertas served in the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Call-to-Action Taskforce and is a longtime member of REFORMA where she has been directly involved with services to unaccompanied youth through the Children in Crisis project.
Huertas co-created Creando Enlaces, a binational library conference that fosters community connections and cultural diversity bringing together libraries from the US and Mexico to share best practices. She helped establish SDPL's LGBTQIA+ Library Services Committee, which has been providing services and resources to the LGBTQ+ community for 10 years, and she serves as a co-lead in San Diego County's LGBTQ+ Latine Coalition.
Huertas received her B.A. in Chicana/o/x Studies from San Diego State University and her MLIS from San Jose State University. She is a 2008 Spectrum Scholar and in 2022 was named as one of Library Journal's Movers & Shakers for her work as a Community Builder.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
2:30pm – 3:30pm Pacific
REFORMA's Children in Crisis Project (Poster 62)
Saturday, June 29, 2024
3:30pm – 5:00pm Pacific
REFORMA's Children in Crisis Project - Creating Immigrant Youth and Library Connections
Sunday, June 30, 2024
1:00pm – 2:00pm Pacific
The Library is Open to ALL: LGBTQIA+ Community Engagement at the San Diego Public Library!
Monday, July 1, 2024
2:30pm – 3:30pm Pacific