Hi. I am Hana Kadoyama and my pronouns are she/her and they/them. This fall, I'm starting the Masters
of Library and Information Sciences program at San Jose State University, and I am incredibly
honored to be an APIQWTC scholarship recipient I have been involved in the API community here
in the Bay Area for several years now. I am a member of APIQWTC's Banquet Committee and
Big Circle Committee. I've participated in APIENC's incredible Leadership Exchange program and I stage
managed the resilience archive's Performing Visible Resilience program. I've been working
at the Oakland Public Library for just over a year now, and during that time I've gotten involved as a
founding member of the Gender Identity Awareness Task Force and a co-lead for our annual Queer
Family Pride event at the library. Although there's immense diversity within Library workers at the
entry levels, and of course in the communities we serve. The field of professional librarianship is
overwhelmingly White and CIS, and I am so ready to shift that tide. I want to thank APIQWTC, the
Scholarship Committee and everyone who donated for making this possible. Each year, we're able to offer
two scholarships to community members pursuing undergraduate graduate or technical education
and it could not happen without the generous donations of our community, so if you're able
please consider heading over to APIQWTC.org. That's https://apiqwtc.org/apiqwtc-scholarship-fund, and consider
donating any amount you can. It's tax-deductible. Thanks so much, you beautiful beautiful humans.