 Hi, my name is Lizette Lizardi. I'm one of the recipients of the 2019 Director's Scholarship of Excellence and I wanted to thank Dr. Hirsch, Dr. Stenstrom, the entire School of Information Faculty and the entire Awards and Scholarship Committee for making this scholarship possible. I want to pursue a Master's in Library and Information Science because growing up I was able to experience how powerful the services, the resources and the books at the libraries can be and now that I'm an adult I can see how powerful public libraries are and how important they are especially to low income and underserved populations which is why in the MLIS I would like to focus in public librarianship. This scholarship is going to make it possible for me to finally begin on this journey so I wanted to thank everyone who made this scholarship possible.