Jason Kucsma is Acting Director/Fiscal Officer at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. Jason’s 12 years of leadership in libraries comes after nearly a decade leading a non-profit independent media organization and publishing an internationally distributed politics and culture magazine. Jason is a born-and-raised Ohioan who earned his bachelor’s degree in communication and master’s degree in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. He earned his master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Arizona before moving to New York City to work with public, academic, school, and special libraries at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Jason returned to Ohio in 2015 to assume the role of Deputy Director at Toledo Lucas County Public Library where he has led a leadership team in providing world-class library services to the diverse communities of Lucas County. Jason’s work in libraries is informed by his dedication to the role public libraries play in building strong communities through equitable access to information and technology — and the expertise librarians bring to help navigate both.