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President: Lisa Bakanas President@njasl.org Lisa Bakanas has been a School Library Media Specialist for 10 years at Cherokee High School in Marlton, NJ. She received her Master of Arts in School and Public Librarianship from Rowan University. She began volunteering with NJASL after receiving the NJASL Villy Gandhi award in 2011 and became an Executive Board Member of NJASL in 2012, serving as Corresponding Secretary. She then served for two years as NJASL Member-at-Large, co-chairing two NJASL Spring Meetings and last year's Annual Fall conference. Prior to becoming a librarian Lisa worked as a systems analyst, a project manager and enjoyed 9 years home raising her 3 sons. If she is not in the library, she is traveling or trying to find time to craft. Follow her on social media @lisabakanas. |
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President-Elect: Christina Cucci Presidentelect@njasl.org Christina Cucci has been a School Library Media Specialist for 7 years, working with K-2 students in Upper Saddle River, NJ. She served as a classroom teacher for 11 years prior, educating students in grades K-3. Christina was selected as the 2015 ALA Emerging Leader and helped co-write a toolkit for AASL called Promoting School Library Programs. She is the former Co-President of the Bergen/ Passaic affiliate of NJASL. Christina lives in Morristown, and gardens every summer and snowboards in the winter. |
Jill Mills is an elementary librarian for Preschool through Grade 3 students in Chatham. In her thirteen years as a school librarian, she has worked across Morris County, and in 2010 she received Lakeland Hills YMCA Educator of the Year and Lake Parsippany School’s Teacher of the Year. As an active participant of Morris County School Media Association, Jill has served as President, Programming Coordinator, and currently serves as the Regional Consortium Chair. Jill also sits on the Advisory Board of the New Jersey Literacy Association.