Carmen Centeno is a Library Services Specialist with the Miami-Dade Public Library System. She has over 20 years of experience in youth services, programming and general librarianship> She also manages the Library’s local author series and fair, which won a 2020 National Association of Counties achievement award. Ms. Centeno has also received the SEFLIN Summit award for developing programming for infants and the visually impaired, and has represented the Library internationally hosting early literacy workshops at libraries in Medellin, Colombia and Madrid, Spain. She holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University.