2021 CCLI Keynote Speakers:
Nisha Mody, M. Wynn Tranfield, and Doug Worsham
In this talk we share the values, personal and shared, that guided our early pandemic response efforts, discussing the essential importance of centering student voices and creating anti-hierarchy and anti-perfectionist frameworks. We consider this work through the lens of the “Showing Up for Racial Justice” toolkit, and draw practical take-aways to help participants foster antidotes to white supremacy culture in their own organizations.
Nisha Mody, MLIS, MA CCC-SLP
Nisha Mody is a librarian at UCLA with experience serving as the Associate Director of the Network of the National Library of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region and as a Health & Life Sciences Librarian as the liaison to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
M. Wynn Tranfield, MLIS
Wynn Tranfield is the librarian for Physical and Basic Sciences at UCLA. She has previously
worked in cataloging departments, access services, and community college libraries. Prior to entering librarianship, Wynn worked in agriculture and field ecology in Montreal, Canada. At UCLA, she works with undergraduates, graduates, and faculty to refine knowledge synthesis practices, build information literacy foundations, and explore collections through a critical lens. Past publications have contributed to topics as varied as gamification in libraries, geologic map instruction, and submarine cables as the physical internet. Wynn received her MLIS from the University of Washington and is a graduate of McGill University.
Doug Worsham
Doug Worsham is the Digital Experience Manager at UC San Diego. He works to continually improve the holistic user experience across the Library’s digital platforms through collaboration, partnership, teamwork, and engagement, and will direct and organize agile project teams to provide a bridge between user needs and highly technical groups, partners, and vendors. He was previously a Librarian at UCLA Library and a co-founder of WI+RE (Writing Instruction + Research Education). With a background in instructional design and student-centered pedagogy, he is passionately interested in how learners collaborate to create knowledge and is always looking for new ways to genuinely center diverse learners in the design of memorable, meaningful, and transformative learning experiences.
See our Keynote speakers’ recent publication:
Tranfield, M., Worsham, D., & Mody, N. (2020). When you only have a week: Rapid-response, grassroots public services for access, wellness, and student success. College & Research Libraries News, 81(7), 326.