The Community Council is the representative body of MLA caucuses. It advises the Board of Directors, promotes interchange among caucuses, and is the caucus governing body.
The chair of the Community Council is an ex-officio voting member of the MLA Board of Directors, elected for a three-year term by caucus representatives on the council.
Deidre (Dede) Rios, AHIP
Chair
Michelle Schonken, AHIP
Member - Vision Science Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Anna Biszaha
Member - Dental Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Rep
Michele L. Mason-Coles
Member - Federal Libraries Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Rep; Community Finance Request Revi
Ariel FitzGerald Pomputius, AHIP
Member - Health Humanities Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Shannon Denise Bohle, AHIP
Member - History of the Health Sciences Caucus Chair; Community Council Representative
Aida Miro-Herrans
Member - Latinx Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Erin E. Reardon, AHIP
Member - Libraries in Health Sciences Curriculums Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Jodi L. Philbrick, AHIP
Member - Medical Library Education Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Caroline Allen
Member - Vision Science Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Irena G. Dryankova-Bond
Member - Pharmacy and Drug Information Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Kate M. Saylor
Member - User Experience Caucus Chair; Community Council Representative
Brandi Tuttle
Member - Technology in Education Caucus; Community Council Alternate
Sheila Green
Member - Science Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Laura M Lipke, AHIP
Member - Science Caucus Chair; Community Council Representative
Tyler Moses
Member - Social Justice and Health Disparities Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Jamia Williams
Member - Social Justice and Health Disparities Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Mary Katherine Haver
Member - Systematic Reviews Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Leila Ledbetter, AHIP
Member - Systematic Reviews Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Marlena Rose, AHIP
Member - Technical Services Caucus Chair; Community Council Representative
Kelley Alan Minars
Member - Technology in Education Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Courtney Pyche, AHIP
Member - PH/HA Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Rachel Whitney, AHIP
Member - Pharmacy & Drug Info Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Shenita Peterson
Member - Public Health/Health Administration Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
G.J. Corey Harmon, AHIP
Member - Public Services Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Beatriz G. Varman, AHIP
Member - Public Services Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Talicia A. Tarver
Member - Research Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Rebecca Carlson, AHIP
Member - Research Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
A'Llyn Ettien, AHIP
Member - Resource Sharing Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Jonathan Ratliff
Member - Resource Sharing Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Yingting Zhang, AHIP
Member - Scholarly Communications Caucus Chair; Community Council Representative
Sue Groshong
Member - Pediatric Librarians Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Alyssa M. Portwood, AHIP
Member - Pediatric Librarians Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Sloane G Kelley
Member - Osteopathic Libraries Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Comm Council Rep Credentialing Cmte.
Robyn Reed
Member - Medical Informatics Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Erin Wentz
Member - Mem Cmte Liaison
Pamela Hargwood, AHIP
Member - NAHRS Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Holly Hudson
Member - New Members Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
DeAnn Brame
Member - New Members Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Keydi Boss O'Hagan, AHIP
Member - Nursing and Allied Health Resources and Services Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Repr
Abbey Norris Griffith
Member - Osteopathic Libraries Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Julie H. Schiavo, AHIP
Member - Med. Lib. Educ. Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Felix Chisoni
Member - Medical Informatics Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Alessia Zanin-Yost, AHIP
Member - International Cooperation Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Ana Corral
Member - Int'l Cooperation Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Naomi Bishop, AHIP
Member - Latinx Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Angela Spencer, AHIP
Member - Leadership & Mgmt Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Katie
Member - Leadership and Management Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Katresa Gardner
Member - LGBTQIA+ Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Soph Myers-Kelley, AHIP
Member - LGBTQIA+ Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
Lisa Marks
Member - Libraries in Health Sci Curriculum Chair; Community Council Alternate
Basia Delawska-Elliott, AHIP
Member - Hospital Library Caucus Immediate Past-Chair; Community Council Representative
CeCe Railey, AHIP
Member - Hospital Library Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Renee Rau
Member - Health Humanities Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Travis Schulz, AHIP
Member - Health Association and Corporate Libraries Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Rep
Carrie D. Adams
Member - Complementary and Integrative Health Caucus Imm Past Chair; Community Council Rep
Elizabeth Irish, AHIP
Member - Consumer and Patient Health Information Services Imm Past Caucus Chair; Community Council Rep
Katherine (Katy) E Smith
Member - Data Caucus Chair; Community Council Representative
Rachel Becker
Member - Dental Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Heidi M. Patterson
Member - Federal Libraries Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Cason Jones
Member - Health Assoc. & Corp. Libraries Caucus Chair; Comm Council Alternate
David
Member - Cancer Librarians Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Angela Faye Tucker, AHIP
Member - CAPHIS Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Sarah Wade
Member - Caucus Governance Cmte.
Deborah A. Crooke
Member - Clinical Librarians and Evidence Based Practice Caucus Chair; Comm Council Alternate
Traci Tosh
Member - Clinical Librarians and Evidence Based Practice Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Rep
Karen Gau
Member - Collection Dev Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Sarah McClung
Member - Collection Development Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Rep
Yumin Jiang
Member - Communities Finance Request Review Workgroup
Brian L. Baker
Member - Communities Finance Request Review Workgroup
Terry Selfe
Member - Comp and Integrative Health Caucus Chair; Comm Council Alternate
Molly Crews
Member - AVIS Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Jaimi Christine McLean
Member - Cancer Librarians Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
John Bourgeois, AHIP
Member - Animal and Veterinary Information Specialist Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Represen
Beverly Murphy, AHIP, FMLA
Member - African American Med Lib Alliance Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Comm Council Rep; Caucus Governance C
Jennifer
Member - Accessibility and Disability Chair; Community Council Alternate
Amy L Corder
Member - Liaison, Professional Recruitment & Retention Committee
Faith Steele, AHIP
Member - AAMLA Chair; Community Council Alternate
Michelle Zafron
Member - Academic Librarians Caucus Chair; Community Council Alternate
Niki Cobb
Member - Academic Librarians Caucus Immediate Past Chair; Comm Council Rep; Caucus Governance Cmte.
Laura N. Haygood
Member - Accessibility & Disability Immediate Past Chair; Community Council Representative
Kate Corcoran
Liaison - Staff (Chief Operating Officer)
Tomi Gunn
Liaison - Staff (Community Manager)
Saori Wendy Herman, AHIP
Member - MLAConnect column editor, Caucus News
