Deborah Gitlitz

Deborah Gitlitz is an experienced Youth and Community Outreach Librarian and consultant based in Portland, Oregon. She has worked in culturally and economically diverse public libraries for over 25 years. Bilingual in Spanish and English, Deborah is the founder of the statewide consortium Libros for Oregon, which helps the state’s small and rural libraries take advantage of the resources of the Guadalajara Book Fair through cooperative book-buying. 

Deborah is also co-creator of the free, research-based, K-3 afterschool literacy programming resource, Fostering Readers. She consults for libraries and early childhood educators; offers early literacy and story sharing trainings for the Oregon Registry of childcares; and serves as Storyteller for the nonprofit Portland Chamber Music. Although she is home-based in Portland, since 2014 her family's other home has been in the village of Santa Cruz Etla, just outside Oaxaca City. Deborah’s family sponsors the LPP library partner in Guadalupe Etla.