Jade Jacobs is a middle school librarian at George J. Ryan Middle School (216Q) in New York City. Ms. Jacobs earned her Bachelor’s of Arts at Howard University where her passion for literacy and education was ignited while teaching in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Her experiences teaching reading and writing with elementary students and working as a bookseller led her to pursue librarianship. Ms. Jacobs has over a decade of experience teaching and mentoring youth in schools and libraries, using literacy and literature to connect with students, develop lifelong readers, and foster twenty-first-century skills.