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Tracie D. Hall (she/her) is an artist,

curator, and librarian. Hall appointed

as Executive Director of the

American Library Association in the

beginning of 2020, is the first female

African-American executive director

in ALA’s history. In 2016 Hall

founded Rootwork Gallery dedicated

to showing art that has healing and

the investigation of folk and

indigenous cultures at its core. A

graduate of the University of

Washington, University of California

and Yale University, Hall was raised

in the Watts neighborhood of Los

Angeles. Tracing her family back four

generations to a small Louisiana

town, Hall is the first generation in

her maternal family to be born

outside of that southern state and the

first generation on both sides of her
A portrait of Tracie D Hall posing in a library with a
family to be born outside the south. background of book shelves

Hall learned the foundations of

traditional Black healing and alchemy

from elders in her family and is

committed to keeping these folk

practices alive.

Tracie participated as the

Established Artist for our Spirituality

Art Talk.

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