Embedded Librarian

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz

Embedded Librarian

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz is a reference and instruction librarian at the Graduate Center. She is the embedded librarian for the Futures Initiative and HASTAC@CUNY, as well as liaison for the departments of Advance Social Research, Africana Studies, Anthropology, Food Studies, Language and Literacy, LGBT Studies, Psychology of Political Behavior, Public Health, Social Welfare, Sociology, Theatre, Urban Education, Urban Health and Society, and Women’s Studies. She often speaks and writes on issues of Black Lesbian Archiving. Shawn is completing her MFA in Fiction at Queens College, holds a BS in Queer Women’s Studies from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program, and an MLS from Queens College.

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