Olivia Radbill

Olivia Radbill (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based librarian and archivist. She currently serves as the Adult Services/Local History Librarian at the South Pasadena Public Library and teaches at Pasadena City College and Louisiana State University. She has extensive experience in volunteer coordination, programming, public libraries, academic reference, grant writing, collection management, and archival work. In 2024, Radbill was the runner-up for the American Library Association (ALA) Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award for her article, Settler Narratives: Colonial Genocide, Westward Expansion, the Gendering of Librarianship, and the Appointment of City Librarian Nellie Keith, later published in the Journal of Radical Librarianship.