Staff
Michaela Day, Community Digital Repository Project Manager
Wordsworth Musinguzi, Community Digital Repository Project Assistant
Alissa Light, Interim Executive Director
Clarence White, Associate Director
Collaborators
The East Side Freedom Library is proud to be supported by a range of contract and volunteer collaborators who support our staff, board, and mission.
- Steve Boland, Next in Nonprofits
- Keren Gudeman, Next in Nonprofits
- Bruce Willms, Librarian
- Gretchen Corniea, Facilities
- Michaela Corniea, Communications
- Geordie Flantz, Communications
- Katherine Grimm, Communications
- Ismail Khadar, Housing Justice
- David McAllister, Facilities
- Kristyn Seo Taff, Finance
- John Sielaff, Cataloging
- Kristi Wright, Website Administration
Board of Directors
Wilt Hodges, President
Author/Advocate
State of Minnesota Public Servant/Columbia University Alum
Rick Macpherson, Vice President
Michelle Filkins, Board Secretary
Professor and Reference and Instruction Librarian, Metro State University.
Isuru Herath, Board Treasurer
Warren Hanson, Member of the Board
Selena Moon, Member of the Board
Independent scholar in Japanese American Mixed Race and Disability History
Masters of Arts in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelors of Arts in History, Smith College
Dr. Najaha A. Musse, DO, Member of the Board
Physician in Family Medicine & Community Health.
Cassie Williams, Member of the Board
Associate Director, Labor Education Service, University of Minnesota