{"id":785,"date":"2014-04-15T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=785"},"modified":"2014-12-29T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:49:21","slug":"meet-ingrid-abrams-an-rt-member-profile-by-tess-goldwasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/785","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ingrid Abrams!: An RT Member Profile by Tess Goldwasser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tess Goldwasser<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ingrid is a GLBTRT Director-at-Large and just finished her first year on the Rainbow Project. She couldn&#8217;t be more proud of the work the committee does, saying, \u201cThe world needs more voices represented in children&#8217;s and YA lit, and we help bring those works to light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She is a youth services librarian, working with children and teens in Brooklyn, New York. She says her passion is making the library a safe and welcoming place for kids and teens, no matter what their background, and adds, \u201cI want our elected officials to fund us properly so that we may have enough staff and resources to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid lives with her partner, also a librarian, and their two cats who, she says, \u201chate each other and pretty much run our lives.\u201d She enjoys glittery crafts, reading in the bathtub, and watching documentaries and is a gin <em>connoisseur<\/em>. Her goals in life are to get enough sleep, spend time with the people she loves, and drink good coffee!<\/p>\n<p>If she could be an animal she would be a pud\u00fa. She tells me this is a species of 18-inch-tall deer, which have tiny horns. Ingrid thinks she\u2019d look great with tiny horns!<\/p>\n<p>If she could have a dinner party with five culturally or historically significant figures, living or dead, she would invite Yayoi Kusama, \u201cLil Edie\u201d Beale, Alice Liddell, Liza Minnelli, and Pyewacket, the cat from <i>Bell, Book, and Candle<\/i> .(I didn\u2019t say anything about fictional characters, but it\u2019s a fun idea!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tess Goldwasser\u00a0 Ingrid is a GLBTRT Director-at-Large and just finished her first year on the Rainbow Project. She couldn&#8217;t be more proud of the work the committee does, saying, \u201cThe world needs more voices represented in children&#8217;s and YA lit, and we help bring those works to light.\u201d She is a youth services librarian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-people","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}