About this episode:

· Getting to know Bethany and what she does for JMU [00:20]

· Bethany’s work with the JMU Libraries Deans Council and the Council on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to create the Self-Examination Pledge and the changes it calls for [1:44]

· JMU Libraries’ collaboration with the Furious Flower Poetry Center and student resources that the collaboration will create [7:36]

· Bethany’s experience working at the Digital Library Federation and her work on the Authenticity Project [14:08]

· Bethany describes Afrofuturism [18:33]

· The role of libraries in dismantling racism in higher education [28:12]

· Bethany recommends “Struggling to Breathe: COVID-19, Protest, and the LIS response,” an article about the role of libraries in the fight for social justice [35:33]