Ten people, together with a college librarian and college professor, have utilized for a vacant seat on the Lafayette Parish Library Board of Control, which in the previous yr has been stacked with Christian conservatives because it offers with requests to ban books and prohibit LGBTQ supplies.The Lafayette Parish Council is anticipated to vote Tuesday to fill a vacancy on the library board created when Vice President Landon Boudreaux resigned in late July to pursue a brand new job and graduate faculty. The board members are volunteers and are not paid to serve.For the previous yr, the council has chosen for the board people with Christian and conservative ideologies, together with a person who protested Drag Queen Story Time at the library in 2018. Robert Judge, who was elected board president after having served lower than a yr on the board, has voted to ban an LGBTQ guide, tried to have the board hearth a civil service library supervisor who erected a teen guide show that included LGBTQ books and tried to take away all librarian enter right into a committee that determines whether or not to ban books at the request of patrons. Applicants embrace Tiffany Abshire, Susan Benoit, Roslyn Bergeron, Aimée Dominique, Alice Ferguson, Erika Godfrey, Christie Maloyed, Erasto Padron Jr., Alicia Roberts and Azadeh Yazdi-Kaufman.Abshire has been a librarian since 1994, first as assistant director and youngsters’s librarian at the Vermilion Parish Library from January 1994 till June 2001, supervising eight library branches. The Lafayette resident then turned faculty librarian at Mount Carmel and Eaton Park Elementary in Abbeville from August 2018 to the current. She has a grasp’s diploma in library and knowledge science from LSU.Benoit was government assistant to Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle from 2013-2017. She labored at UNOCAL in Lafayette from 1982-2001 after incomes a bachelor’s diploma in petroleum engineering from LSU in 1982.Bergeron is the proprietor and operator of Fresca Pelle in Lafayette since 2011. She beforehand labored at a girls’s health heart, a day spa and salon, and was a bookkeeper at a farm and with the metropolis of Kaplan. Bergeron served on the Louisiana Crawfish Farmers Association government board and on the Louisiana Farm Bureau Crawfish Board.Dominique, a resident of Lafayette since 1997, has been in non-public apply focusing on wellness counseling, non secular emergence and transformation, together with a labyrinth retreat facilitator. She beforehand labored at hospitals and therapy amenities as a medical social employee. She earned a grasp of social work from Tulane University in 1988.Ferguson spent 37 years as an award-winning newspaper journalist and editor, and dealing on the college of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has expertise in communications in small group and interpersonal settings in addition to public relations and media settings. A resident of Lafayette, Ferguson is a volunteer with Indivisible Acadiana and is skilled by the college as an LGBTQ+ ally.Godfrey who has a grasp’s diploma in schooling and is a resident of Lafayette, has been proprietor and director of Brilliant Minds of Lafayette since June of 2020. She additionally has been a tutor with The Tutorhouse in Lafayette since February 2013 and was a lead instructor with the Lafayette Parish School System from August 2010-February 2020.Maloyed, since shifting to Lafayette in 2015 to work at UL, has been concerned with the League of Women Voters, the 705 Young Acadiana Leaders and is a graduate of Leadership Lafayette. A member of the Lafayette Parish Library (*10*) Board, she co-chaired the annual awards ceremony in June, elevating $10,000 for the library system. An writer and political commentator, Maloyed has a doctorate diploma in political science.Padron, a Lafayette resident, has been an info system safety engineer at L3 Harris Technologies in Broussard since January. He beforehand labored in cyber safety for the U.S. Air Force and personal companies relationship again to 2015. Padron earned a bachelor’s diploma in informatics at UL in 2017.Roberts has a bachelor’s diploma in utilized habits evaluation from Central Methodist University and a grasp’s diploma in utilized habits evaluation from Ball State University. Since January 2015, she has been employed at BrightSpots Behavior and Learning. She beforehand labored as an emergency division technician, midwifery intern and radio morning present co-host.Yazdi-Kaufman has greater than 20 years {of professional} expertise in advertising and marketing, strategic communications and public relations. Her work expertise has included marketing campaign supervisor with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, communications coordinator with the Louisiana Special School District and advertising and marketing and recruitment director with the Lafayette Parish faculty system. She served on the Northeast Library steering committee and is on the Evangeline Thruway Redevelopment Committee.
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