Meet the 2025-2026 NEASIS&T Executive Committee
A very belated Meet the 2025-2026 NEASIS&T Executive Committee post! We are deeply grateful to these leaders for volunteering their time and energy to support the chapter’s mission and goals and engage the information science community in professional development. This year has been especially significant as we welcome our new Special Libraries Association colleagues to our chapter, whose unique expertise and perspectives enrich our chapter.
Below you’ll find a brief introduction to each of our chapter officers. We encourage you to reach out to us at neasist@gmail.com with any questions or ideas. Our Executive Committee is here to serve you and help make your NEASIS&T experience even more rewarding! Be on the lookout for our announcements over the summer for volunteers for open Executive Committee positions.
Ayiana Crabtree, Chair
Ayiana Crabtree (she/they) is the Student Success Librarian at SUNY Polytechnic Institute and currently serves as the Chair for the NEASIS&T Chapter. In their current role, Ayiana is focusing on facilitating a smooth onboarding for the new SLA members, as well as managing how the upcoming split for the establishment of a Mid-Atlantic Chapter will impact NEASIS&T. Outside of work, Ayiana enjoys playing cozy video games and collecting cardigans!
Michele Costello, Chair-Elect
Michele Costello, MBA, MLIS, is an Assistant Professor at Baruch College of The City University of New York. She is passionate about information and financial literacy, which is reflected in her research and instruction. Prior to her current role, she has held other adjunct positions at Baruch College and Florida Atlantic University, led a private training and consultancy business, served as a Director of a non-profit organization, and spent over a decade working in different aspects of corporate finance and credit risk at Bank of America, ABN AMRO Bank, and the Royal Bank of Scotland. She has published in the Journal of Education for Business and The Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, served as the President of SLA NY Chapter, and spoken at multiple industry conferences in the finance and information services fields. She brings a practitioner and academic perspective to her new role as president-elect of NE ASIS&T and enjoys marathon running and snowboarding.
Grete Graf, Past Chair
Grete Graf is a Digital Preservation Librarian at Yale Library, where she helps manage the Library’s digital preservation system and collaborates with staff across Yale’s libraries, archives, and museums to safeguard digital assets for the long term. Her professional interests include digital preservation, AI-assisted coding, data visualization, and web archiving. She has been active in NEASIS&T since 2018, serving in a variety of roles, including 2024–25 Chapter Chair, 2021 Conference Chair, Chapter Secretary, and the Programming and Awards Committees. She currently serves as Past Chair on the Executive Committee, where she assists with onboarding new officers and provides advisory support to chapter leadership as needed. If you’ve joined NEASIS&T in the past couple of years, you may also recognize her as the sender of the new member welcome emails. Outside of her day job, she enjoys gardening (tomatoes are the current focus!), hiking Connecticut’s beautiful trails, and traveling.
William Lundmark, Treasurer and Alternate Assembly Representative
William Lundmark received his Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Long Island University in 2007. After spending nine years as the Electronic Resources Librarian at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and Pharmacy schools in New York City, he moved to Massachusetts in 2016 to take a similar position at Worcester State University. In 2017, he became a member of ASIST and the New England chapter and assumed the Executive Board role of Treasurer for NEASIST the following year, a position he has served in ever since. As Treasurer, he is an ex-officio member of the Programming Committee, and played a lead role in the reorganization of the chapter when its geographic coverage was expanded to cover the Northeast in 2021-2022.
Jenny Yuan, Membership & Outreach Director
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Angela Ackerman, Co-Programming Director
Angela Ackerman is a former business psychologist with 20 years of experience spanning finance, healthcare, and higher education, who now views library and information science as her intentional encore career. She assists in the Archives Department at Yale New Haven Health, focusing on metadata, digital preservation, and knowledge organization. She is also Adjunct Faculty and IT Grant Program Manager at Cape Cod Community College, leading initiatives at the intersection of business, technology, and education. Angela is a 2025 MLA Research Training Institute Fellow and a speaker at the AI Summit New York, where she presented on the intersection of hospital archives and AI. She serves in leadership roles with New England Archivists, NE-/ASIS&T, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. As a member of the NEASIS&T Executive Committee, she helps strengthen chapter programming, outreach, and engagement. Her research explores how AI, strategy/analytics, and applied archival science can work together to make complex information more accessible and actionable. Fun fact: Over the past 15 years, Angela has also worked as a print and runway model.
Shengang Wang, Co–Programming Director
Shengang Wang is an assistant professor at Simmons University. He is teaching in the information science and technology concentration. His research focuses on human information behavior and human-computer interaction in diverse sociotechnical systems (e.g., social media, digital libraries). He pays special attention to vulnerable and marginalized user groups (e.g., LGBTQ people, people with disabilities) in his research. He has been an ASIS&T member for a few years and is currently a co-chair of the NEASIS&T Programming Committee, working together with folks on planning and organizing webinars and social events for chapter members. As part of the executive team, he contributes to discussions on general chapter matters and provides updates on ongoing event planning efforts. He is an amateur tennis player, who used to play a lot of tennis during his PhD program, making it harder for him to graduate earlier. He was once the OLDEST player in the tennis club at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Joanna Davidson, Chapter Secretary
Joanna Imogen Davidson serves as the Secretary on the Executive Committee taking meeting minutes and managing/editing documents. Currently the Library Technology Coordinator at the Dartmouth Libraries, she provides staff tech support and assists with SysAdmin/DevOps duties as well as an interest in makerspaces and assistive technologies. She has many years of experience in both public and academic libraries as well as corporate IT. Joanna joined ASIS&T attracted to the networking, resources, and events focused on LIS the organization offers. Outside of work, she enjoys knitting, tinkering, woodworking, and amateur radio. She writes poetry and seeks to get her first collection out soon.
Louisa Choy, Digital Media and Communications Director
Louisa Choy the Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian at University of Massachusetts Boston. She has been involved with ASIS&T, especially the Northeast (formerly New England) chapter, for over a decade in various roles, including member, webmaster, program committee member, program committee co-chair, and chapter co-chair. As Digital Media and Communications Director, she manages the chapter website and collect and develop content for it. She oversees the promotions of chapter events. She finds ASIS&T to be a valuable professional community, offering exposure to a wide range of information science topics she doesn’t encounter in her daily work, helping her stay connected to the broader information science field. Outside of work, she likes watching Chinese and Korean dramas and videos of baby elephants. She likes fixing things around the home, though her home improvement skills are nowhere as good as her e-resources and systems skills.
