Executive Director
DC Public Library
Richard Reyes-Gavilan is the Executive Director of the DC Public Library. He oversees a campus of 26 libraries and a staff of 600. Most important among the projects for which he is responsible is the full modernization of the landmarked Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the District of Columbia’s only building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Mies’s only realized library in the world. Before coming to the District, he served as the Chief Librarian for the Brooklyn Public Library, the nation’s fifth largest public library as measured by population served. The son of Cuban immigrants, he lives in D.C.’s diverse Mount Pleasant neighborhood with his wife Liz and two daughters Louise and Margretta.
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Monday, June 27, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am