 Hi, I'm Kristen Pease, the Spring 2022 recipient of the Ken Haycock Award for Exceptional Professional Promise. I am truly grateful to Dr. Bowman, Dr. Harlan, and the entire Student Awards and Scholarships Committee, along with the iSchool Director, Dr. Chow, the School of Information Faculty, in particular the professors who have guided me these past 18 months, and my fellow MLIS students. Class by class, learning from professors and collaborating with classmates, my LIS interest sharpened and career horizons broadened. I applied to San Jose State University iSchool with a vague notion of becoming a public librarian, but will graduate focused on landing an academic librarianship position. My librarianship goals have grown from a generic idea of connecting people with books to a specific passion for bibliographic instruction, from wanting to do something positive in my city, Los Angeles, to being able to define that positive something with phrases like open education resources, equitable information access, and transformative agreements. I'm looking forward to launching my professional librarianship journey from the foundation the SJSU iSchool has helped to build. Thank you.