Samantha Mills, B.Ed., MLIS is Assistant Manager, Program Planning and Evaluation at Vancouver Public Library. She has worked at VPL for five years, in both Digital Services and Programming & Learning. She is passionate about supporting library staff, and about connecting library patrons with the learning opportunities they need to improve their lives. She loves evangelizing about library services in non-traditional venues like comic cons and podcasts, and has long been fascinated by fanfiction – its intricate ecosystems, and the way it can be used to create diverse and inclusive spaces and stories adjacent to mainstream media properties.