Teresa Helena Moreno is an educator, librarian and seasoned academic administrator with over 15 years experience in the academe. Trained in feminist methodology, critical ethnic studies, Black feminist theory and interdisciplinary practice, her scholarship, pedagogical praxis, and administrative work are rooted in these approaches.

 She is currently an assistant professor in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she is the librarian for Black Studies, and the College of Architecture, Design + the Arts. Her approaches to information science are deeply rooted in the inquiry of how we can center and reframe voices of those not reflected in dominant culture and create library practices in support of this effort.  She is currently researching the ways the information sciences misunderstands the diaspora and how it works with diasporic content.

Teresa has managed interdisciplinary academic departments focusing on curating programming and developing curricula at the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as creating and implementing strategic plans and supporting faculty research, including mentorship programs for faculty of color. In addition to this work, she has held executive roles focused on advancing the needs of students of color, women, and LGBTQ students through various programs, events, advisory appointments, and educational policy work within institutions of higher education. She teaches a number of undergraduate feminist-based courses on topics relating to gender, race, and sexuality and has developed the first gender studies offerings at various institutions in Chicago.

She earned her BA in English from Saint Joseph's College, her MA in gender studies and women's studies from Loyola University Chicago and an MS in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In 2013 she was a recipient of the Women of Color Leadership Award by the National Women's Studies Association.  She was named a 2017-2019 Diversity Scholar by the Association of Research Libraries.  In  2018-2019 she was named a Spectrum Scholar awarded by the American Library Association (ALA) and a Sylvia Murphy Scholar from the Illinois Library Association and most recently selected as a 2020 Emerging Leader by the ALA.