Annie Pho

Annie Pho is the Head of Instruction and Outreach Department at the University of San Francisco Library. She has a Bachelor's in Art History from San Francisco State University and a Master's in Library Science from IUPUI. She has facilitated workshops on microaggressions and presented extensively on critical librarianship and teaching and learning. She is the co-editor for the book Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS, as well as the co-editor of the Critical Race and Multiculturalism Series for Library Juice Press. Her research interests include intersectionality and women of color in LIS, student research behavior, and feminist pedagogy in information literacy instruction. She was a 2013 ALA Emerging Leader, a participant in the 2014 Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians, the recipient of the 2018 JCLC Rising Star award for APALA, and in 2019 she received the ACRL WGSS Significant Achievement Award for her work on the book, Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS.

In her free time, she likes to hang out with her cats, explore the SF Bay Area, and collecting mid-century American pottery.