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Each year, the 鲍鱼tv School of Information (SI) hosts a State of the Program event where we discuss accomplishments of the M.A. in Library and Information Science (MLIS) program, where we aim to be over the next few years, and where we recognize our Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award winner along with our 鲍鱼tv SI Outstanding Student Award winner. This year, the SI faculty selected Celia C. P茅rez to be awarded the Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award and Maria Feliciano for 鲍鱼tv SI Outstanding Student Award.

Celia C. P茅rez is the author of The First Rule of Punk (Viking/Penguin, 2017), a 2018 Boston Globe鈥揌orn Book honoree, a Pura Belpr茅 Author Honor book for narration, and a winner of the 2018 Tom谩s Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award; Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers (Kokila/Penguin, 2019); and Tumble (Kokila/Penguin, 2022). When not writing about quirky kids who break rules, she works as a community college librarian at Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, where she has spent the past twenty years and currently serves as department chairperson. She is a former co-chair of 's Children and Young Adult Services Committee, served on the 2014 Pura Belpr茅 Award committee, and has written and reviewed for The Horn Book Magazine. She is originally from Miami and is a graduate of the University of Florida (B.A., M.Ed.) and the University of South Florida (M.A). 

Mar铆a Feliciano is in her final semester of the MLIS program at the University of South Florida. She served as secretary and president of the Student Organizations of Library & Information Science (