Katherine Carlson is a Research & Education Librarian at the Duke University Medical Center Library, where she serves as a liaison to the School of Nursing. Motivated by a passion for user-centered services, Katherine is committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and responsive environment that meets the diverse needs of all library users. She recently graduated with her MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and she is grateful to be participating in this fellowship.

Karen Everson  just completed her MSLIS this spring, and she also has a BS in Exercise Science. She has worked in fitness and healthcare settings as well as public and school libraries.  Most recently, she has been working from home while completing her graduate studies.  She is an active volunteer with various sport, theater, and community groups.  She has three sons and live in the Southern Tier of New York. 

Ashaki Haroon has built a career through a progression of roles dedicated to student success, library access, faculty support, and organizational excellence as an academic librarian at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her journey began as a support staff member, then advanced to User Services Supervisor, Access Services Supervisor, and currently serves as Head of Access Services and Student Resources. In this current role, Ms. Haroon oversees a variety of initiatives that support both student development and operational effectiveness. A significant part of her work involves cultivating a workforce readiness program designed to prepare students for professional success. These efforts emphasize essential soft skills, including emotional intelligence, professional decorum, time management, communication, and project management. As Ashaki Haroon continues to grow as a librarian, she is excited to embark on a new chapter focused on Health Sciences and the opportunities it presents for interdisciplinary collaboration and student engagement. Outside of work, Ashaki Haroon enjoys traveling, cooking, bicycling, and swimming, activities that help maintain balance, curiosity, and a lifelong love of learning.

Hannah Holmes is a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Campbell University Wiggins Memorial Library. 

Sarah Joseph is the Health Research and Data Librarian at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). After several art degrees and a career as a university gallery director, Sarah returned to school, earning an MLIS degree from Wayne State University. Prior to her current role at GVSU, she was a liaison to the College of Business. In 2023 she and her fellow health science librarians at GVSU were part of the second cohort of the All of Us Data Training and Engagement for Academic Libraries Program. 

Kaha Liban (she/her) is a recent graduate from Western University in Ontario, Canada and has completed her MLIS degree. In 2020, she graduated with a BA (Honours) in Global Health from York University. Her interest in librarianship, particularly health science librarianship, was inspired by one librarian’s work in the global health field during the Ebola Crisis and her travels to Somalia. Through this fellowship program, she hopes to learn more and further develop her skills in librarianship where she can have a meaningful impact within health librarianship. 

Shuyi Liu is a tenure-track faculty member and Health Sciences Librarian at California State University, Fresno, where she serves as liaison to programs across the health and human services disciplines, including public health, nursing, physical therapy, kinesiology, and social work. She teaches a Medical Library Association (MLA) Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS)-certified course in the Department of Public Health, helping students develop skills to navigate, evaluate, and communicate high-quality health information for diverse communities. Her work focuses on health literacy, health education, and community-centered approaches to health information access, with a particular interest in interactive media and emerging technologies.

Through the UNT Health Sciences Librarianship Fellowship Training Program, she looks forward to strengthening her foundation in health sciences librarianship, learning from mentors and peers across the profession, and exploring innovative ways libraries can support health information needs in evolving digital environments.

Yanling Liu is the Coordinator of Information Literacy and Research Services at Indiana University Kokomo Library, where she provides strategic leadership for initiatives that advance information literacy, research support, and student engagement. Her work focuses on inclusive pedagogy, accessibility, and the integration of generative AI in teaching and learning. 

Laurel Mueller (she/her) is a Senior Assistant Librarian at the University at Buffalo, where she serves as liaison librarian for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She received her MS in Library and Information Sciences alongside an MA in History from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in May 2024. Her research interests include information-seeking behavior, evidence synthesis practices, wellness and community building, and the history of medical librarianship. 

Uyen Nguyen is currently the Electronic Resources and Discovery Librarian and Lead for Resource Sharing at the Medical Center Library, Duke University. Her primary responsibilities include managing the library's electronic collection, troubleshooting access issues, resource sharing and support collection discovery. Prior to her time at Duke, she was at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign as a graduate assistant in the Main Library. She is passionate about connecting others to high quality and reliable medical information, while creating an inclusive and meaningful collection that is reflective of patrons’ needs.

Kristin Perales is the Section Head of Instruction and Assessment at UTEP. In this role, she leads efforts in library instruction and assessment, development of student research skills, and navigation of academic resources. She serves as a subject specialist for health-related disciplines including Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Sciences, and Speech & Language Pathology, offering tailored research support and guidance to learners and faculty in those areas. Kristin has a bachelor's and master's degree in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at El Paso and a master's degree in Library Science from Texas Women's University. 

Ellen Perleberg is a May 2025 MSLS graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, and she worked as a home healthcare aidel. Her first love, as a researcher and an advocate, has always been labor and the work of caring for others. The skills of health librarianship are crucial for all information professionals, especially as health information increasingly becomes central to the fight for information access and intellectual freedom. Through this fellowship, she is excited to learn alongside other emergent health science librarians and to connect with people already working in medical schools and hospitals.

Tiffany Porter is a recent graduate, holding an MLIS from the University of Maryland, and her B.A. from Arcadia University in International Studies and Spanish. Before completing graduate studies, she served in the U.S. Navy for eight years as a linguist and intelligence analyst, roles that informed her work in information science and honed her skills in research and analysis. Her interests center on the information-seeking behaviors and needs of healthcare providers, researchers, and patients. Driven by her large family of nurses, she aims to bridge her analytical background with reference librarianship to improve public and professional accessibility to high-quality, reliable health information.

Haley Prell recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's MSLS program. While completing her degree, she worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Library in Research Triangle Park and saw firsthand how crucial information services are for protecting both human and environmental health. Prell is particularly interested in scholarly communications, and during her time at the EPA, she helped researchers and policymakers navigate open access publishing requirements and make their work easily discoverable by the public. She is very excited to learn more about health sciences librarianship and to contribute to this important field!

Attya Shahid is an MLIS student at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has experience in academic libraries, virtual reference services, and metadata projects, with interests in health sciences librarianship, information literacy, metadata, and information access. Through the Health Sciences Librarianship Fellowship Training Program, she hopes to expand her knowledge of health information services, develop new skills, and connect with professionals in the field.

Krystal Velazquez is a library and higher education professional currently serving within the foundation of a large hospital system. She holds a B.A. in Humanities and English from Lubbock Christian University, an M.A. in Educational Leadership from the University of Central Florida, and an MLIS from the University of South Florida.

Carmen Zinn holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned her MLIS from Valdosta State University in December 2025. Her library career includes roles as a library assistant at Oglethorpe University, a librarian trainee at the Government Accountability Office, and a scholarly communications librarian intern at Georgia Southern University. This summer, she will join the Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Library as an intern in conjunction with this fellowship. She is passionate about teaching information literacy and providing complex research support, and looks forward to using these skills to serve patients, consumers, and researchers in an academic, hospital, or federal health agency library.