As President and CEO, Stacy Lieberman leads LFLA’s fundraising, programming, and advocacy work to help enhance the Los Angeles Public Library’s critical mission to provide free and easy access to information, ideas, books, and technology. Her own love of libraries began in suburban Detroit. She fondly remembers climbing atop a wooden step stool, as a child, each week in front of her local library’s circulation desk with a towering pile of books which were her passport to worlds beyond her midwestern community. Today, together with the talented LFLA team, she is passionately dedicated to increasing LAPL’s capacity to enrich, educate, and empower every Angeleno. She sees this mission as more urgent than ever in this age of growing inequities, disinformation, book bans, and digital divides.
Prior to assuming her current role in 2022, Stacy held senior positions at iconic LA arts, non-profit, and educational institutions, including The Broad, the Autry Museum of the American West, and the Skirball Cultural Center. A mission-driven, collaborative, and inclusive executive, she has a track record of success in building awareness and support, expanding access, prioritizing equity, and developing mutually beneficial partnerships. While at the Autry, she earned an LA Area Emmy Award as co-executive producer of the documentary Tending the Wild. She has also held marketing or communications positions at California State University, Northridge; Getty, Los Angeles; Wayne State University Press, Detroit; and St. Martin’s Press, New York.
Stacy currently serves on the board of DTLA Alliance and on the Council of American Jewish Museums Advisory Council, the Cultural Diplomacy Leadership Council of the Meridian Center for Cultural Diplomacy, and the communications committee at IKAR. She received a bachelor’s degree cum laude in English and French from Tufts University and a master’s degree in English from Wayne State University.
