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Humanities Edge Undergraduate Research Symposium | Fall 2022

Humanities Edge Undergraduate Research Symposium - Librarian Support

Christina Dillon
Hialeah Campus
Isabel Duque
Padrón Campus

Christina Machado Dillon is a Learning Resources Professional for Miami Dade College, Learning Resources, at the Hialeah Campus. She received her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Florida Atlantic University and holds a Master of Arts Degree in Library Information Science from Florida State University. Prior to joining Miami Dade College in 2016, Christina worked for the Hialeah Public Libraries, first as Collection Development Librarian and later as Library Services Supervisor. In addition to her current position, she has also served as an instructor of Intro to Online Research.

Christina is a native Floridian, born of Cuban immigrants. She enjoys spending time with her family, and if time permits, reading and watching classic films. She hopes to instill the same love of reading in her children.

Isabel M. Duque is a native Floridian and a daughter of exiled Cuban immigrants. She has a Master's Degree in Library Science, and a Bachelor's Degree in English with a minor in Film studies. Isabel has a background in both academic and public libraries, as well as teaching English literature in public schools. She is dedicated to equity, arts and letters, as well as having communities experience healing. Isabel hosts social justice community discussions, co-leads the College campus book club, hosts racial healing circles, collaborates with civic and earth ethics groups to promote grassroots activism, and conducts professional development workshops for Miami Dade College’s faculty and students. Her life’s work is to transform the library landscape in higher education, create a more inclusive, interdisciplinary curriculum and making curiosity contagious.

Isabel’s areas of interest are in storytelling, critical pedagogy, regenerative culture, and liberation studies, all of which are avenues to developing multi-literacies, community, and self.

   
Lizeth Garcia
Homestead Campus

  
Lizeth Garcia is a Learning Resources Professional at Miami Dade College’s Homestead campus. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology Education from Florida International University, as an Honors College student. She also holds a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. Lizeth is proud to have spent the last fifteen years in support of education. First, as a classroom teacher at a Title I school and currently as a campus librarian at democracy’s college where she serves as library liaison for the School of Aviation and English for Academic Purposes (EAP).