Mary Davis Fournier

Mary Davis Fournier is the Deputy Director in the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office, where she specializes in institutional partnerships, scaling impact, and new project development for all types of libraries. Fournier has spearheaded dozens of groundbreaking initiatives that have paved the way for innovation in the field, including Libraries Transforming Communities and the National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA). She has an M.Ed. in education policy studies from the University of Illinois at Champaign – Urbana, and a B.A. in history and English literature from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.