Business Research & Teaching Librarian
University of Louisville
Alexandra Howard is the Business Research & Teaching Librarian at the University of Louisville. As tenure-track faculty, her research explores how universities can support local Black-owned businesses in their communities and how librarians can help cultivate campus and community partnerships. Professor Howard is a participant in ALA's 2022 Class of Emerging Leaders, serves on ACRL's Diversity Alliance Taskforce, and was appointed by her university president to the University of Louisville's Commission on Diversity and Racial Equity. She has her B.A. in Africana Studies from Oberlin College and MLIS with a concentration in Cultural Heritage Informatics from Simmons University. Professor Howard is a new librarian, earning her MLIS in 2020, and her background is in community outreach and engagement. Before becoming a librarian, she worked as a criminal defense investigator at the Nashville Public Defender where she investigated hundreds of cases to uncover evidence and secure not guilty verdicts or reduced incarceration for her clients. Prior to that, she coordinated a leadership and advocacy program for homeless youth at a nonprofit in San Francisco. While in graduate school for her MLIS, she worked as a library assistant at a law library, small liberal arts college, and at Northeastern University where she discovered her passion for working with entrepreneurs and supporting business research. Professor Howard is excited about bringing an innovative, anti-racist, community-engaged lens to her work as a librarian.
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Sunday, June 26, 2022
2:30pm – 3:30pm