About Us

President
Ivan is the current branch manager of the Norco Library that belongs to the Riverside County Library System. Throughout his career as a library professional he has used Anti-Racist frameworks and principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to inform his work. Ivan has built spaces for underrepresented communities to express themselves freely through the use of grant funding from the Book to Action grant (2020) and California Humanities Quick Grant (2021). He has also been affiliated with the California Library Association’s Developing Leaders in California Libraries (DLCL) program as a 2022 cohort member wherein his team focused in on the assimilation practices of mentorship on BIPOC communities and presented alternatives to assimilation by developing a BIPOC centered mentorship model. In 2023 Ivan became a mentor coach for the new DLCL cohort now under California Libraries Learn (CALL) in which he alongside other mentor coaches supported leaders throughout California to develop equity centered brief papers that brought attention to the inequities present in California communities today.

Vice President
Alysa Cua is a library assistant at UC Riverside. She has worked in a variety of information settings, including school, special, and public libraries, as well as museums. Alysa graduated from CSUSB with a BA in Studio Art, has her MLIS from SJSU, and has presented twice at library conferences. Alysa has worked with supervisors and colleagues to make the libraries she worked at more accessible. At the Norco Public Library, she created the annual, virtual Herstory Chats program. At Riverside County Law Library (RCLL), she created research guides for those who speak Spanish and for street vendors. She also created a "menu" of RCLL's in-person services to improve access for Deaf/deaf patrons, as well as signage which allowed patrons to read the closing announcements.

She is also a member of APALA and, was a member of the 2023 APALA Engagement Task Force, which was charged with identifying "APALA’s past and potential engagement opportunities with Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, and Central, South, Southeast and Southwest Asian American library workers who may or may not be APALA members." Alysa is mixed-race, Asian and White, and joined REFORMA in 2022 to be of service to the Latine community. She believes we are stronger together, and hopes to pay forward the support she has received from REFORMA IE and is grateful to be welcomed in this space.

Treasurer
Geneva is a professional library worker. She is currently working for the Riverside County Library System. She has worked with diverse communities, with an emphasis in musical expression. She has been a member of Reforma since 2021 and is honored to serve as its current treasurer. Geneva is looking forward to supporting Spanish speaking communities and is excited to be a part of Reforma IE.

Secretary
Mia currently works as a Library Associate 2 for the Riverside County Library System. She earned an Associate’s Degree in World Languages from Mt. San Antonio College in 2018. She was drawn to the library because of a love for books and an interest in lifelong learning. While working in the library field and as a Member of REFORMA IE, she hopes to do meaningful work that benefits and serves multiple communities.

Immediate Past President

Minerva grew up as a migrant Latino child that followed crops with her father & brother from southern California up to northern California living in shared units with other Latin farm laborers. These first-hand experiences have led her to her passion of helping the needs of the Latino community.

She has worked for the Riverside County Library System for over 38 years at the Coachella, Indio. Cathedral City, Mecca, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, Thousand Palms, La Quinta & Bookmobile branches. She worked with the project Campesino Library Service delivering library materials to laborers in rural area, performing bilingual story times for children over 20 years and coordinating the Día del Niño/Día de los Libros events starting in 1997 with much success. Minerva has been an officer with REFORMA IE since its inception in 2018 as Secretary, briefly Vice President/President-elect, President and currently as Immediate Past President.

Communications Co-Chair

Daisy Flores is a Library Services Manager for Ontario City Library. She oversees the public facing services for the main library including programming, outreach and makerspace services, large scale events, and collection development for all ages. She has worked in school, public, and law library settings. Her passion for serving the Latino community led her to Ontario, California. During her time there she has established a weekly bilingual story time, annual Día del Niño/Día del Libro and Día de los Muertos programs, high circulating Spanish collections, and created a Spanish Translations Committee and championed for the translation of written promotions.

She was one of the founding members of REFORMA IE and served as President from 2018 - 2020. She currently serves on the chapters’ Executive Committee as a Communications Co-Chair.