Clanitra Stewart Nejdl

Clanitra Stewart Nejdl’s enthusiasm for law librarianship, both nationally and in her home program at Vanderbilt Law, is self-evident. Clanitra started her career practicing in Georgia and South Carolina, where she worked for the public interest, representing indigent clients and advocating for policy change on behalf of low-income communities. In her second career as a librarian, Clanitra coordinates Vanderbilt’s Prepare to Practice series, which connects students with members of the surrounding legal community. She has held several leadership positions in the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL), and she is currently a member of the AALL Spectrum Editorial Board and a member of the AALL Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Awareness Special Committee. In fact, much of Clanitra’s scholarly writing and speaking is done on the topic of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), which her nominator relayed is “a key tenet of [Clanitra’s] pedagogical philosophy, and she has taken every opportunity to promote it within the profession.”