About Tessa Grindle-de Graaf

Tessa Grindle-de Graaf has been working for public libraries in Ohio for six years and has served as the Grants Resource Librarian for the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library since March of 2023.

Over the course of her career, Tessa has held a variety of roles including as a branch Life Skills Liaison and as the Field task instructor for a Library Social Work Intern from The Ohio State University. During the height of the COVID-19 shutdown, she served as a Virtual Youth Learning Specialist and hosted daily learning sessions with students online. Tessa now leads a monthly set of four classes and regularly presents off-site workshops on the Foundation Directory Online to organizations in the Cincinnati area.

Always a lover of learning, Tessa earned a Master’s in opera performance from Oklahoma City University’s Bass School of Music in 2016, and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Kent State University in 2018.

Tessa is happiest when she is with her also learning-loving spouse, David, who is a professor of engineering, and their two Heinz 57 Supermutts, Murphy and Kenny, who would rather be playing outside.