Episodes

Episode 9: Angela Pashia - Empowering Library Leaders Through Coaching and Curiosity
March 5, 2026

Episode 9: Angela Pashia - Empowering Library Leaders Through Coachin…

In this episode of the Shush Free Zone, host Dawn Brushammar speaks with Angela Pashia, a leadership and career development coach, about her journey from academic librarian to coaching library professionals. They discuss the ...

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Episode 8: Matthew Noe - Comics, Patients, and the Power of Storytelling: The Fascinating World of Graphic Medicine
Feb. 5, 2026

Episode 8: Matthew Noe - Comics, Patients, and the Power of Storytell…

In this episode of The Shush-Free Zone , host Dawn Brushammar speaks with Matthew Noe, a health sciences librarian at Harvard Medical School who specializes in graphic medicine. Matthew shares his path into librarianship, how...

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Episode 7: Jessica Talisman - From Card Catalogs to Ontologies: Building Knowledge Systems for Humans and AI
Jan. 1, 2026

Episode 7: Jessica Talisman - From Card Catalogs to Ontologies: Build…

In this episode of The Shush Free Zone , host Dawn Brushammar talks with Jessica Talisman - librarian, semantic systems expert, and founder of Ontology Pipeline - about what it really takes to build knowledge systems that wor...

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Episode 6: MJ D'Elia - From Academic Libraries to Creative Facilitation
Dec. 4, 2025

Episode 6: MJ D'Elia - From Academic Libraries to Creative Facilitati…

In this episode of the Shush-Free Zone, host Dawn Brushammar chats with MJ D'Elia, founder of Thirdway Think and Director of LLEAD, about his journey from academic libraries to teaching and creative facilitation. MJ shares in...

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Episode 5: Clare Bilobrk - From Law Libraries to Remote Adventures in Research, Writing and Knowledge
Nov. 6, 2025

Episode 5: Clare Bilobrk - From Law Libraries to Remote Adventures in…

In this episode, host Dawn Brushammar sits down with the unstoppable Clare Bilobrk , whose decades-long journey across school, public, and law libraries has evolved into a career in content strategy and remote knowledge work....

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Episode 4: Mairead McKeown - From Librarianship to Knowledge Leadership in the Age of AI
Oct. 2, 2025

Episode 4: Mairead McKeown - From Librarianship to Knowledge Leadersh…

In this episode of Shush Free Zone, host Dawn Brushammar speaks with Mairead McKeown, Knowledge and Market Intelligence Manager at Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board. They discuss Mairead's journey into librarianship, the evoluti...

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Episode 3: Laura Pike Seeley - Blending History, Design and the Digital Workplace
Sept. 4, 2025

Episode 3: Laura Pike Seeley - Blending History, Design and the Digit…

In this episode of Shush Free Zone, host Dawn Brushammar speaks with Laura Pike Seeley, a knowledge management and digital workplace strategist. Laura shares her journey from a love of libraries to her current role at HKS, wh...

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Episode 2: Jennie Pu - Public Library Director and Freedom to Read Advocate
July 31, 2025

Episode 2: Jennie Pu - Public Library Director and Freedom to Read Ad…

In this episode of Shush-Free Zone, host Dawn Brushammar sits down with Jennie Pu , director of the Hoboken Public Library, whose career path in the library world has been anything but linear. From childhood memories of summe...

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Episode 1: Dawn Brushammar - Welcome to the Zone
July 4, 2025

Episode 1: Dawn Brushammar - Welcome to the Zone

Welcome to The Shush-Free Zone ! In this short intro episode, host Dawn Brushammar shares her unexpected path from political science student to librarian, consultant, and podcast host. Get to know the voice behind the mic and...

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