CLI Welcomes Mychal Threets as Literacy Ambassador
Promoting Equity and Inclusion in Reading
We're excited to announce that Mychal Threets joined CLI in our celebration of Read Across America Day with the National Education Association (NEA), Read by 4th, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Threets delivered an exciting, interactive read aloud embracing diversity in literature and honoring a nation of diverse readers. His engaging and powerful read recalled his own advocacy for children’s literacy and education, human rights, and social action, aligning with CLI’s vision for the future. As a strong proponent of CLI's ideals, Threets will complement the organization’s mission and goals as Literacy Ambassador.
Besides partnering with CLI, Threets is furthering his inspiring career with a new partnership alongside PBS Kids. He has launched his collaboration with PBS on a social media series advocating book joy and relating real-life library stories. In response to Threets joining the television network’s team, PBS stated, “We’re so excited about all the library joy and book joy you’re going to share!”
"I'm hoping to fight for literacy. There's so much going on across the nation — across the world — that is impacting libraries, and I want to support them as much as I'm able to — worldwide, nationwide, going before Congress, letting them know how much libraries need funding, deserve funding."
Mychal Threets, via ABC 10
CLI is fortunate to have Threets onboard and helping to spread the message and vision of children’s literacy. His platform of knowledge and passion for equity, diversity, and inclusion will assist CLI in promoting a pathway to liberation through literacy for every human being. Threets joining CLI as its Literacy Ambassador is a welcome development and an important step in strengthening CLI’s essential work.
Mychal Threets received his B.A. in Communications with a concentration in Technology from the University of Phoenix and his M.A. in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. He fostered his career in the library setting as a near-decade-long employee of Vallejo, California’s Solano County Library, climbing from an aide and associate to a children’s librarian and later Solano County’s supervising librarian.
In his tenure there, Threets encouraged hundreds of children and families to sign up for library cards through community outreach, trained the public on how to use information and technology resources, and developed a leading-edge digital marketing strategy for the Solano County Library, among other vanguard feats that forged him into an important educational leader of the library and the city of Vallejo.
By the time Threets exited his position at Solano County, he was recognized as the incoming Chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee and Chair of the social media team. Not to mention, Threets has since become a viral social media presence for his book recommendations, interactions with library patrons, and messages advocating for mental health.
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Celebrating a Nation of Diverse Readers with Read Across America
Recently, Threets joined CLI in their celebration of Read Across America Day with the National Education Association (NEA), the non-profit organization Read by 4th, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. Threets delivered an exciting, interactive read aloud embracing diversity in literature and honoring a nation of diverse readers. His engaging and powerful read recalled his own advocacy for children’s literacy and education, human rights, and social action, aligning with CLI’s vision for the future.
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