Erica V.

Erica V. currently serves as a Youth Services Librarian at Johnson County Library, where responsibilities include leading a team, onboarding new staff, and coordinating youth programming. Previous experience includes roles as a Senior Collection Development Librarian and Youth Specialist at Kansas City Public Library, managing children's and young adult collections across multiple branches, and as a Youth & Teen Librarian at Bonner Springs City Library. Erica's career foundations include a Reference Graduate Assistant position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earlier roles in circulation and software quality assurance. Erica holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Sciences from DeVry University, and a Bachelor of Social Work from The University of Kansas.