Congratulations to the 2025 Amanda Green Scholarship Fund Winner!

Kalamazoo Public Library wishes to congratulate the recipient of the 2025 Amanda Green Scholarship!

Brandon White

Brandon White is a writer, cat lover, Christian, and self-proclaimed “history dork” with a passion for serving his community. As a librarian, he hopes to hone his people skills and be a positive role model for young boys. Brandon is also on the autism spectrum and is dedicated to ensuring neurodivergent and disabled people are allowed equal life opportunities.

About the Amanda Green Scholarship Fund 

The Amanda Green Scholarship, named after a former library assistant in Teen Services at KPL, makes the library profession more accessible to people of color. By providing monetary assistance to individuals pursuing a master’s degree in library science from an accredited program, the library aims to promote the training and hiring of more librarians of color in Kalamazoo and other communities.

In 2016, the Kalamazoo Public Library board passed a resolution that reaffirms the library’s commitment to “address equal justice under the law, racial justice and institutional racism, social-economic divisions in our community and human dignity for all through our programs, services, policies, practices and the empowerment of staff to serve our community with these values as priorities.” In addition, the library’s 2019–2022 strategic plan established the goal of Advancing Equity and Inclusion to develop and maintain an informed and compassionate library staff that reflects the makeup of our diverse community. KPL is committed to achieving this goal through initiatives like the Amanda Green Scholarship Fund.

Amanda Green worked at KPL for 23 years (1988–2012). She spent many of those years in Teen Services and worked to give all teens the opportunity to improve their lives. Her passion for KPL’s mission to support and mentor teens has inspired the work of library staff for years.