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Libraries Without Borders US Staff

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Aaron Greenberg

Executive Director

Aaron (he/him) is an educator and advocate with ten years of experience in organized labor, public policy, and research. Prior to joining Libraries Without Borders US as executive director, he led electoral campaigns, workforce development efforts, and federal lobbying with the hotel workers’ union, UNITE HERE Local 11. From 2014-2019 he represented the 8th Ward on the New Haven Board of Alders, where he focused on affordable housing and education policy. He holds a Ph.D. in political science at Yale University and B.A. in philosophy and M.A. in social sciences at the University of Chicago, and has taught at Yale College, Yale-NUS, and Deep Springs College.


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Nina Safane

Chief Operating Officer

Nina (she/her) is a community-based leader who has built and led systems, teams, and organizations that increase access to education and public health services. Most recently, she led COVIDCheck Colorado, a social benefit enterprise that partnered with communities across the state to support Coloradans to safely return to community amidst the pandemic. Prior to this work, as co-founder of the Girls Athletic Leadership Schools, Nina spent over 10 years designing, building, and leading an innovative school model in Denver, Colorado. She worked as a coach for rising school leaders within the network and through Columbia University’s Summer Principal Academy. Nina has a BA in Education Studies from Brown University and an MA in Education from Columbia University.

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Kat Edmiston

Development & Research Coordinator

Kat Edmiston (she/her) is eager to support LWB’s mission of expanding access to information through her role as Development Associate. In this capacity, she works on grant writing, prospecting, donor stewardship, fundraising events, and capital campaigns. Previously, Kat worked in research, studying trauma-informed practices for education and institutional barriers to long-term school success. She recently graduated from the University of Chicago with an M.A. in Social Sciences and a B.A. in Law, Letters, and Society.  

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Eden Gebregiorgis

Communications & Design Specialist

Hailing from Chicago, Eden (she/her) is an Eritrean-American who is passionate about empowering youth and communities through education and digital inclusion. She obtained a Master of Public Policy focused on education and communications and has worked across public, private, and nonprofit organizations. She studied and lived in Germany for over three years, enjoys traveling and learning about different cultures, and is an art enthusiast.

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Alexis Taylor

Baltimore Project Coordinator

Alexis Taylor (she/her) strongly believes in closing the literacy gap and eliminating the digital divide across all sectors of the population in Baltimore. She has lived in Charm City since 2008 and is a graduate of both Morgan State University and Johns Hopkins University. The former teacher is also a journalist and photographer, with a passion for creating change through the Arts.

Alex Aldarondo

Program Manager

Alex Aldarondo serves as a facilitator trainer for the Agile Learning Centers Network and as an education consultant for various independent community-based projects in Puerto Rico and abroad. Engaged in the field of education for over 15 years, Alex specializes in self-directed learning initiatives and community development framed in agile management, emergent strategies, and evolutionary stages of organizational development. He has collaborated with and helped initiate self-directed learning communities in México, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Spain, and the United States.

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José Luis Vargas

Media Arts and Communications Advisor

José Luis Vargas (he/his/el) is a visual artist, art professor and independent educator and cultural community producer. He is a graduate of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, he earned an MFA at Pratt Institute and from the Royal College of Art. His paintings have been exhibited across the world. José Luis served as community radio coordinator for the Channel 6 Communication Project, and he has created youth media centers for various non profits. In 2011, he founded the first youth media center for Boys and Girls Club in Puerto Rico which created and produced comic books and video campaigns and spots touching on human rights and health-related themes.

Board of Directors

Patrick Weil

Chairman of the Board

Founder

Georges Lurcy Visiting Professor of Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law 
at Yale Law School

Senior research fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne

Peter Sahlins

Deputy Chairman of the Board

Director of Interdisciplinary Studies Department and Professor of History at UC Berkeley

Yves Istel

Deputy Chairman of the Board

Senior Advisor, Hanseatic LLC

Katherine Reisner

Co-Secretary of the Board

Senior Counsel at States United Democracy Center

Chelsea Stieber

Treasurer of the Board

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Catholic University

Owen Fiss

Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School

Jeanne Friedman

Strategic Development Adviser

Jo Ling Kent

Broadcast Journalist

Amber Koonce

NAACP Legal Defense Fund/Fried Frank Fellow

Ramona Naddaff

Co-Secretary of the Board

Associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley

Sara McDougall

Professor, John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center

Eric Parrie

Vice President, Gary Community Ventures

Gary Stewart

Managing Director, Techstars NYC

CEO, FounderTribes

Antonio García Padilla

Dean Emeritus, University of Puerto Rico School of Law

Mary Lee Kennedy

Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries

Nate Hill

Executive Director, Metropolitan New York Library Council

Tse-Sung Wu

Biotech Drug Development Leader

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