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.