Tess Tobin is our Membership Coordinator. She has been a proud member of the Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club since 2005. She loves to read, and as the new Membership Liaison Coordinator enjoys promoting the book club’s mission to connect readers everywhere through Latinx culture and literature.
Tess is a retired Associate Professor from New York City College of Technology, the City University of New York. For fourteen years, she was the Personnel and Administrative Services Librarian overseeing Human Resources, Facility Planning and Technology. Tess has dedicated much of her professional career to REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. She was President of REFORMA National from 2017-2018 and served on the Executive Board of the REFORMA Northeast Chapter. She is the Past-Chair of the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) of the American Library Association (ALA).
Tess continues to advocate for the fundamental freedoms and equity of access to information and knowledge for all members of the community. Through her work she promotes the principles of the IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto which she co-authored while serving as Chair of the Library Services to Multicultural Populations (2011-2015) section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutes (IFLA).