Amber Matthews

Amber Mathews is a Library and Information Science (LIS) doctoral student at Western University and holds a master’s degree in LIS. Her research examines systemic racism in public libraries and its impacts on racialized youth in Canada. It is grounded in an anti-oppression methodologies, specifically anti-racism, and suggests that failing to account for race and redress systemic power relationships denies historical imbalances of power and entrenches systemic racism. Amber has contributed the three-part series Theory into practice: Moving from systemic racism to anti-racism in Ontario public libraries:

• Theory into practice I: Systemic racism in public libraries
• Theory into practice II: Addressing systemic racism
• Theory into practice III: Anti-racism in practice