Maha Kumaran (M.A., M.L.I.S., Ph.D.) is the Acting Assistant Dean for Collections and Discovery (January 2024 – current) and the librarian for the College of Education. Her research interests, expertise, and professional activities revolve around marginalized populations who work at and use academic libraries. Ms. Kumaran is a successful SSHRC Doctoral Award (2020) recipient for her dissertation research on equity in the Canadian academic library leadership landscape. Ms. Kumaran is a leader in equity, diversity, and inclusion work in Canadian librarianship. She served as the first visiting program officer for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Working Group, through which she led pan-Canadian library employees to highlight and advance many EDI issues and initiatives in Canadian librarianship. She also founded and initiated the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) network in 2012 to bring racialized Canadian librarians tog