Summary
Cynthia Orozco is an Open Educational Resources and Electronic Resources Librarian with eight years of experience supporting community college students and faculty across the Los Angeles college system. She combines classroom teaching, library instruction, and OER advocacy to improve access, information literacy, and archival practices at institutions including East Los Angeles College and Long Beach City College. A current PhD candidate in Information Studies at UCLA, Cynthia researches how archives function within community college libraries, bringing scholarly rigor to practical campus initiatives. She is candidly critical about complacency in higher education and library work, viewing dissent as a tool for growth and sustained care for students. Hidden strength: she balances hands-on student services and system-level communications work (e.g., managing web and directory communications for the Council of Chief Librarians), which helps her translate research into actionable campus policy and resources.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
San Diego State University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science & Sociology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science & Sociology at University of California, Irvine
English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, nahuatl languages