Megan Emery is an Experience Designer & Coordinator for the Chattanooga Public Library. She has worked at library innovation for 3 public libraries in 3 different states for over 10 years. A recent MLIS graduate of Syracuse University’s iSchool, The Healing Library was born from an independent internship she conducted in an effort to address community wellness from a nontraditional lending perspective. She is the author of Cooking Up Library Programs Teens and Tweens Will Love: Recipes for Success, and she believes in the power of respecting the old while enthusiastically attempting the new, committing to user based design, and in petting puppies whenever you see them.