Jill Rothstein
Jill Rothstein is the Head Librarian of JBI Library: “Connecting anyone who is blind, has low vision, or has print disabilities to Jewish life.” Before that, they were the Chief Librarian of the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library in NYC for ten years, is a founding member of the New York Public Library’s Accessibility Working Group (winning the NYPL’s Mission award), and a founding member and mentor with the Innovation Project which supports staff at any level in bringing to life unusual and creative projects. She has presented at the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled conference, Metro Libraries conference, American Library Association, and Harvard’s World Heritage Strategy Forum, among others. She won the Kennedy Center LEAD Conference’s Emerging Leader award, and led the Andrew Heiskell Library to win the NYC Mayor’s Office Sapolin Award and the NYPL’s Maher Stern Award. She is a committee member of the Museum Access Coalition. Before all that she sang and did silly dances for toddlers as a children’s librarian and then did not sing as much as a neighborhood branch manager.