Nichelle M. Hayes, LIS Industry Speaker Series

President, Black Caucus ALA (BCALA)

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).