Nichelle M. Hayes, MPA, MLS, is the President of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association BCALA (2022-2024). She works as an Information Professional with a focus on the African Diaspora, Community Engagement and Inclusion. As an active member of ALA she serves on the “2023 ALA Nominating Committee” & “Working Group to Condemn White Supremacy and Fascism as Antithetical to Library Work” 2022 - 2023. Hayes was recently honored as a 2023 Culture Carrier Award Honoree and 2022 National Coalition of 100 Black Women - Breakthrough Women Award. She is a genealogist with a focus on African Ancestry and keeping families connected, as documented in her blog “
The Ties that Bind.” Hayes is a graduate of the former IU School of Library & Information Science (SLIS) with her Masters in Library Science, (now Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indianapolis).
