Kaaland, Christie: - Christie Kaaland, EdD, is a Core Faculty member of Antioch University Seattle, USA, where she designed, launched, and co-chairs Antioch University's graduate school library certification program. Kaaland is the former associate editor of Teacher Librarian: The Journal for School Library Professionals and has been guest editor of school library advocacy-themed issues of Knowledge Quest and Vanderbilt University's Peabody Journal. Her writing and research interests are school library advocacy and children's literature. In 2021, she won the Washington Library Association President's Award.