Ann Arbor District Library Board of Trustees Member
What does this office do?
- Setting library hours and services
- Deciding how library money is spent
- Picking the library director
Affects: Government Efficiency, Government Spending Reduction, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties,
Candidates:
Nonpartisan · Incumbent
Appointed Ann Arbor District Library trustee in 2026 and executive director of the Independence Hall Association; co-founded the Philadelphia newsroom Resolve Philly. Priorities: the library as open public space for all and broad access to information.
Records: Civil Rights 1 for, Government Spending Reduction 1 against, Public Education Quality 1 for
Nonpartisan
Software engineer and board member of the housing advocacy group Neighbors for More Neighbors. Priorities: a new downtown library with mixed-income housing that serves many uses, and keeping the library a gathering space free of censorship.
Nonpartisan
Wines Elementary librarian and chair of the Ann Arbor Public Schools elementary library department; former classroom teacher and interim head of school. Priorities: the library as open public space for all and intellectual freedom with broad access to information.
Records: Public Education Quality 2 for
Nonpartisan
Ann Arbor parent with more than a dozen years of work in public libraries and degrees from Michigan State and UC Santa Cruz. Priorities: books and literacy first, including a neighborhood Bookmobile, and deep affordability in any downtown library redevelopment.
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