Brenda Foster of Bexley, Ohio is the 2019 ALAO Diversity Scholarship Award winner. Brenda attends the University of Washington I-School. While there Brenda has been a board member for the UW Professional Continuing Education (PCE) Student Advisory Board and as a Diversity Officer for the Association of Library and Information Science Students (ALISS). Brenda worked as a Metadata Intern for Library of Congress (LOC), and plans to work more closely with data management. One of Brenda’s career goals for working in librarianship, “has to be compassion for the community, regardless of its cultural composition.”

–Edith Scarletto, Diversity Committee Chair, Bowling Green State University