LMCC 2025 Keynote Speakers

Keynote Day #1:  What We Did in Ferguson: A Warts-and-all Telling of Stories

Scott Bonner, Library Director, Ferguson Municipal Public Library District

Scott Bonner has been Director of the Ferguson Municipal Public Library since July of 2014.  The library received the 2015 Library of the Year award from Gale/Library Journal, recognizing staff's work during the Ferguson protests.  Scott has about 25 years of library experience, and his first career was in ground-level mental health, working mostly with kids and adolescents.  He has 4 children, and no sleep.

Keynote Day #2: Signaling (Critical) Hope: Normalizing Self-Preservation & Collective Care in Library Workplace Communications

Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Researcher, Leader, Consultant, and Coach, Kendrick Consulting and Communications, LLC

Kaetrena Davis Kendrick is the collective care leader for library workers, workplaces, and organizations, and her award-winning research on library morale is validating for library workers at all levels. Committed to centering well-being, creativity, possibility, and empathy in the workplace - and promoting career clarity and rejuvenation to workers - she has transformed library programs, services, and culture via creativity, leadership, and advocacy.