Amy J. Alessio is an award-winning librarian with
a black belt in karate. She is the coauthor of A Year of Programs
for Millennials and More (ALA Editions, 2015) and Club Programs for
Teens (ALA Editions, 2015). She teaches graduate-level young adult
literature and conducts dozens of webinars every year, including
ones on the topic of social media for book lovers. Amy enjoys
sharing her passion for Jell-O and kolackies with 30 local and
national audiences a year during interactive presentations on
vintage cookbooks and crafts. She reviews romance titles for
Booklist and has written and edited several works of fiction and
nonfiction. She is a former board member for the Young Adult
Library Services Association. Learn more at www.amyalessio.com.
Katie LaMantia is a teen librarian at the
Schaumburg Township Distric tLibrary in Schaumburg, Illinois. She
is a former Teen Advisory Board member turned teen librarian and is
the coauthor of A Year of Programs for Millennials and More (ALA
Editions, 2015). She has a personal and professional appreciation
for and interest in pop culture and has presented at multiple state
and national library conferences about libraries, teens, and
programming for adults in their 20s and 30s. When not running teen
programs, tinkering with technology, and finding books for young
adults, she enjoys traveling, reading, writing, and extreme
adventure activities.
Emily Vinci is an adult fiction librarian at the
Schaumburg Township District Library in Schaumburg, Illinois, where
she cofounded NextGen, a social group for people in their 20s and
30s. She has presented many times about building great programs for
patrons in their 20s and 30s and coauthored A Year of Programs for
Millennials and More (ALA Editions, 2015). She is passionate about
expanding librarian and patron appreciation for and knowledge of
comics and graphic novels. A pop culture fanatic, she is always
looking for new ways to incorporate popular culture into the public
library. When she isn’t working, she can usually be found reading
comic books, watching movies, or curating her many
collections—especially those of Jaws and Jurassic Park memorabilia.
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