V. Dozier is an Education Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of San Diego, in San Diego, California. She is the embedded librarian for the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences (SOLES) where she facilitates library instruction sessions, research support workshops & consultations, and curates a resource collection designed to support SOLES’ interdisciplinary teaching & research needs, with an emphasis on needs of BIPOC & other underrepresented faculty, staff, and students. V’s research interests include critical librarianship & pedagogy, BIPOC and other marginalized populations' experiences in academic libraries, and graphic novels/comics in educational settings. She’s presented at multiple academic library and education conferences including the Association for College & Research Libraries, LOEX, and the American Educational Research Association. Recent publications include Existing on Erasure’s Edge: BIPOC Treatment in Peer Review (Journal of Radical Librarianship, 2023); When DEIA meets faith in heightened tensions: DEIA initiatives at Catholic-serving institutions (Theological Librarianship, 2022); and a book chapter in Implementing excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion: A handbook for academic libraries (ACRL, 2022). V’s work-in-progress includes a forthcoming edited volume on DEIA in faith-based institutions from Litwin Books.