Marquita D. Gooch, MLIS

Marquita Gooch, MLIS holds 17+ years of varying library experience including a short stint as a school librarian and is also a skilled social media and marketing specialist.  She has made history many times over including being the first African-American Georgia Librarian of the Year. Marquita was also named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2022 and bestowed a Georgia Trend Magazine “40 Under 40” honor as one of the state’s brightest stars under the age of 40. When she is not championing and advocating for information and media literacy, she spends her time honing her DJ skills, creating timely and relevant literacy rooted content on social media, and sharing the stories of librarians, library staff, authors, activists, and artists in the literary world from the African and African-American diasporas via her podcast, Black in the Stacks: Where the Culture is Kept.