Brandy Buenafe, Principal Librarian, California Department of Corrections

Candidate for Director at-Large

Candidates for President-Elect

• Genesis Hansen
  

Candidates for Secretary

• Hilary Theyer
  

Candidates for Director At-large (3 positions open)

• Brandy Buenafe
  
• Kelly Tyler
  
• Darla Wegener
  

Biography

Brandy Buenafe is the Principal Librarian for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a position she has held since 2014.  In this role she provides professional development, policy, and purchasing assistance to the correctional libraries located throughout California’s state prisons.

A 2007 graduate of San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science, Brandy spent seven years as a librarian in two state prisons before assuming her current role. Brandy also possesses an MBA from National University (2018) and a BA in history from University of California at Santa Cruz

(2001).  Brandy served on the California Library Services Board from 2016-2019 and on the California Library Association Board from 2019-2022.

Brandy lives with her husband and assorted pets in Sacramento, California, where she enjoys non-fiction, especially memoirs.

Candidate Statement:

As a California librarian it is my honor to run for the California Library Association Board as a Director at Large.  When I served my first term it was a privilege to share the perspectives of correctional librarianship to the diversity of membership on the Board.  I am running for the Board again to continue to ensure that the voices of the diverse library workers in California have a place in our State Association.  I believe passionately in the mission of the California Library Association, which is to be the community for California libraries.  State agency libraries may not feel reflected in the makeup of the Board, and I’d like them to see themselves in the diversity of our Board.