Jenny Wong-Welch
Jenny Wong-Welch joined San Diego State University (SDSU) in 2014 as the STEM librarian and was the first tenure-track librarian hired in 7 years. Since then, she has earned many more titles and, with that, more responsibilities such as Library Faculty Chair, Head of the Research, Instruction, Outreach Unit, and Director of the build IT makerspace. After her appointment, the library hired an additional 24 librarians over a short span of years. She’s experienced the importance of more inclusive hiring practices with this many new hires. Through small and big actions, she’s changed their policies and practices to treat everyone involved in the process as humanely as possible. She holds a BA in joint mathematics and economics from the University of California, San Diego. Based on a suggestion from her academic librarian, she attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she earned an MS in library and information science.