About

An indexer with experience

Amron Lehte (formerly Gravett) has been indexing scholarly works since 2011. Her work has encompassed books on the arts, child and family studies, cultural identity, environment, feminism and gender studies, land politics, language and literary studies, political biographies, queer studies, racial (in)justice, religion, social justice, and urban studies.

Pronouns: she/her

Background

Amron has indexed books for Wild Clover Book Services since 2011. 


Prior to indexing, Amron served the needs of library users. 


For public libraries, she served in various roles: library director, assistant library director, reference librarian, Spanish language librarian, and teen librarian. 


For a special collection library, her work as assistant director at Cross-Cultural Dance Resources provided rare book preservation and research on the anthropology of dance. 


For an academic library, she provided digital document and interlibrary loan services at Scripps Institute of Oceanography Library, a branch of the UC San Diego Libraries.

Education

2015.

Embedded Indexing and Indexing of Ebooks course

University of California at Berkeley


2014.

Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science


2011.

Indexing Theory & Application course

University of California at Berkeley


2007.

Masters of Library Science

Texas Woman’s University


2001.

Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology

Women’s Studies (Minor)

Northern Arizona University


1999.

Hawaiian Studies (Minor)

University of Hawaii at Hilo


Volunteer Work

Amron has passionately volunteered for the past 25 years for the following causes: child and human rights, education and literacy, food security, and women’s equality.


Her volunteer career has encompassed many fields including creating a community garden and senior meals-on-wheels program, serving as a literacy tutor and resettlement support for refugee women and children, as a high school English teacher in rural Hainan, China, as a member of a city arts and culture board, and as a weekly food bank volunteer.


In her capacity as a book consultant, she has volunteered on various projects including cataloging a South African multi-lingual library for the Centre for the Book in Cape Town, cataloging a family outreach collection for Maine Humanities Council, curating a science museum reference collection, and providing virtual reference services for AskColorado statewide library initiative. For three years, she has reorganized and run a middle school library as a parent volunteer.


As a volunteer advisor, she was the Scholarly Nonfiction Coordinator for Women Writing the West’s WILLA Award and also served on the Advisory Board of Free Spirit Publishing from 2013–2018.