I am an academic librarian currently living in Los Angeles, CA. My personal scholarship centers on applying a critical lens to theory and practices surrounding library and information science (LIS) with a focus on developing an anti-racist praxis.
As soon as I moved to Los Angeles from the Northeast in 2017 to accept a position as the English & History Librarian at the UCLA Young Research Library, I immediately fell in love with sunny Southern California.
In my personal life, you can find me enjoying the great outdoors, hanging out with my adorable dog Baxter, and renovating my 1940s bungalow in the San Fernando Valley. I love taking things that are run down and making them sparkle again. This is the third renovation project my partner and I have taken on. Our first was in 2011 for our then landlords when we lived in Austin, TX, and our second project was a house we owned in Maine while I was a science librarian at the University of Maine.
I thrilled to be making my home in the Valley and am so excited to have made the transition to life on the West Coast. If you use social media, feel free to follow me on Twitter @msmendezbrady and on Instagram @mareeeeeeeeeesa
My ORCID is:
orcid.org/0000-0002-5325-291X
MARISA L. MÉNDEZ-BRADY 
