All members in good standing will be invited via email to affirm the 2024 Election until November 1, 2024. Please email the Secretariat to check on your membership status if you do not receive a link to vote by Friday, October 11. Many thanks to the nominating committee Bettie Parsons Barger, Claudia Bedrick, Shanetia Clark, and Chair Tucker Stone. FOR ELECTED DIRECTOR, 2025-26: Jared S. Crossley, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Literacy and Literature for Children and Adolescents at The Ohio State University, Marion Campus. Before joining Ohio State, he taught 4th and 5th grades for Alpine School District in Utah for seven years. Dr. Crossley is most widely known for his work as the director of a documentary film on children’s author Lloyd Alexander, which was sponsored by Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Penguin Young Readers Group and the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. He served on USBBY’s Outstanding Books for Young Reader’s with Disabilities Committee from 2018 – 2023, including chairing that committee in 2020-2021. He currently serves on the Notable Children’s Recordings Committee for ALSC. His research interests are in children’s literature, with emphases in middle-grade literature, diversity in children’s literature, children’s book awards, and the history of children’s literature. Emilie Robert Wong is an associate editor at Enchanted Lion, where she edits many works in translation. Growing up in a French Chinese American family, she attended school in the French national education system before studying comparative literature and neuroscience at Harvard College. In addition to the French picture book At the Drop of a Cat (a Kirkus Best Book of 2023 and a NYPL Best Children's Book of 2023), she co-translated Beatrice Alemagna's You Can't Kill Snow White, in a translation praised by the New York Times as "lucid" and shortlisted for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative's Translated Young Adult Book Prize. Her favorite stories inspire wonder and realization, imagination and connection. FOR PRESIDENT, 2026-27: Susan Polos has served on the board of USBBY for four terms, two as an ALA appointed Director (AASL and YALSA) and two as an elected Director. She is currently serving as the assistant chair of the 2025 Outstanding International Book Committee. Susan is the middle school librarian and a DEI coordinator at Greenwich Country Day School, Greenwich, CT. She is involved in library organizations at the local, state, and national levels, and is a past president of the School Librarian Section of the New York Library Association. Susan has served on many American Library Association committees, including the 2014 Newbery Medal Committee, the 2018 Pura Belpré Award Committee, and the 2020 and 2021Coretta Scott King Book Award juries; she chaired the Newbery 100th Anniversary Celebration Task Force. Susan is a board member of the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature.
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