Officers and committees

Officers, 2024-2025

President: Kristen Curé | Springfield Public Library
Kristen Curé (she/her) is a librarian at the Springfield Public Library. There, she works with the Spanish-speaking community: she buys materials and books in Spanish and plans events and activities for adults, children and families. Community partnerships and collaborations are the foundation to her work at the public library.
Vice President: Rachel Diego Leon-Kalnins | Newport Public Library
Secretary: Star Khan | Driftwood Public Library
Member at Large: Millie Wilson | Albany Public Library
Immediate Past-President: Brandace Rojo | Josephine Community Library District
Brandace is the Communications & Partnership Manager for Josephine Community Library District in southern Oregon. Working with her communications team, she helps people fall in love with and sometimes re-discover the library through a comprehensive marketing platform. In addition to serving on the Reforma | Oregon Chapter board, she facilitates the Josephine County Latinx Interagency Network Committee and serves on the Grants Pass School District 7 Equity Advisory Committee to the Superintendent.

Committees

The following committees have been developed for REFORMA Oregon. If you are interested in joining one of these committees or have questions for one of the committees, email reformaoregon@gmail.com.

Fundraising Committee
Members: Eduardo Arizaga
Description: To develop ideas to raise funds for REFORMA | Oregon Chapter and implement them

Mock Pura Belpré Awards
Members: Millie Wilson, Star Khan, Alicia Pérez Ververa Laura Kimberly, Allison Byers, Brandace Rojo
Description: Organizing and hosting the Mock Pura Belpré Awards

Communications & Branding
Members: Sarah White, Brandace Rojo, Rachel Diego Leon-Kalnins, Elide Sanchez-Rivera, Millie Wilson, Star Khan, Vanessa Morfin-Ramirez
Description: To keep the website and social media channels updated and facilitate any branding-related projects

OLA Scholarship
Description: To promote the Oregon Library Association Conference and facilitate awarding a scholarship to a member of the REFORMA | Oregon Chapter

Libros for Oregon
Chairs and Members
Click here to visit the Libros for Oregon website.
Description: To form an Oregon library book-buying cooperative to purchase materials for members at the International Book Fair (FIL), in Guadalajara, to help participating libraries to develop and implement outreach plans for connecting their enhanced collections with their Hispanic/Latino communities, and to create a “Best of FIL” booklist for all Oregon libraries to use in collection development.

History

The Reforma | Oregon Chapter held its first meeting in November of 2014 and became a division of the Oregon Library Association in 2023.