Carrie Banks has been the in charge of Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) Inclusive Services, since 1997 and taught Including Youth with Disabilities at Pratt Institute from 2013 to 2015. Active in ASGCLA and ALSC since 2000, she currently the President Elect of ASGCLA. In 2014, she substantially revised Including Families of Children with Special Needs: A How to Do It Manual for Librarians. Libraries and Garden: Growing Together, written with Cynthia Mediavilla was published in the Spring of 2019.