Laureen is the Head of Access Services & Outreach at Colorado Mesa University’s Tomlinson Library and serves as liaison to the Business programs, among other responsibilities. She has taught information literacy instruction for 10+ years, since being an intern with Reference & Instruction at UPenn while in graduate school at Drexel. Past publications include co-editing Memphis Noir (2015, Akashic Books); book chapters on digital badging (2018, Rowman & Littlefield) and misinformation and social media influencers (2021, ACRL); and articles on STEM outreach, librarians on IRBs, MOOCs, embedded librarianship, nursing and information literacy, curbside pickup services, and other topics of interest. Projects in progress include co-editing a book about librarian roles within IRBs/IACUCs through the Medical Library Association (Feb. 2022, Rowman & Littlefield), co-editing a book about spatial literacy development and public health themes (date TBD, ACRL), and co-chairing a working group to develop an IL framework for nursing. She began working toward a PhD in Information Science through the SUNY at Buffalo in Fall 2020.