When we speak of equity in education, race might be the first topic that comes to mind. Today our conversation with Vicki Gruzynski helps us examine how gender and sexuality also play a role and how we can help prepare students themselves for engagement post-high school. 

Vicki is a Teaching and Learning Librarian, and also currently serving as the Director for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts.  She has been at Worcester State since 2016 and has served as the Director of WGSS since 2019. She previously worked at the University of Colorado, the American Library Association, and Southeast Missouri State University.

Vicki graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish with minors in Latin American Studies and Linguistics, and graduated from Indiana University with a Master’s in Library Science and a Master of Arts in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.