Emily Fornwald
University of British Columbia
Education Librarian
Emily Fornwald (she/her/hers) is an Education Librarian at UBC’s Education Library. Originally from Treaty 6 territory, she now resides and works as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. In addition to an MLIS from UBC’s iSchool, Emily has a B.A. (English) and a B.Ed. (Secondary Education), both from the University of Saskatchewan. In her role as an Education Librarian, Emily assists Education faculty and students with research, creates information literacy programming, and co-develops the Education Library collection. She can be contacted at
emily.fornwald@ubc.ca.