Amanda Moreno-Schroeder staffId: 403

Amanda T. Moreno-Schroeder, MSLIS/MA, is the Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair and Director of the Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) at the University of Miami Libraries. She holds dual master’s degrees in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Library and Information Science from New York University (NYU) and Long Island University. Her graduate studies were supported by a NYU MacCracken Fellowship, an American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship, and a fellowship through the Association of Research Libraries' Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce. In 2015, she participated in the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program and, from 2020 to 2024, was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School. In 2026, she was named a UCLA Library Senior Fellow. 

As Director of the CHC, Moreno-Schroeder oversees departmental operations, collection development, public programming, community engagement, and fundraising initiatives. She previously served as the Collection’s Archivist from 2017 to 2023, where she managed and processed archival collections documenting Cuba and its diaspora while providing reference, instruction, and research support to students, faculty, and independent scholars.  

Moreno-Schroeder is an active member of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). She served as Co-Chair of the Scholarship Committee from 2020 to 2022 and Chair of its Special Collections and Archives Committee from 2023 to 2026. In 2026, she was elected Vice-President/President Elect of the organization. She also previously served as Co-Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives (LACCHA) Section of the Society of American Archivists from 2018 to 2020.