Christa Hardy
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
501 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820
773.771.5102
Christa is a second-generation librarian from Tuskegee, AL. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and an MLS from the University of Alabama. For four years, she worked as a Trainer for the U.S. Library Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She returned to the hallowed halls of academe in the Fall of 2004 to pursue her current research interests which focus on literacy, social justice, and capacity building within the African American community.