Noah Lenstra

Dr. Noah Lenstra, MLIS, started Let's Move in Libraries in 2016 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's School of Education, where he is an assistant professor of library and information science and an affiliated faculty member in the Gerontology program. His research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed publications, and in June 2020, his book Healthy Living at the Library was published by Libraries Unlimited. He currently leads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Physical Activity Policy Research and Evaluation Network's (PAPREN) Rural Public Libraries as Physical Activity Promotion Partners Subgroup. He also serves on the American Heart Association's Voices for Healthy Kids Activating Rural America Advisory Group. He serves on the Partnerships Committee of the Association for Rural and Small Libraries. He is the Primary Investigator on the Institute of Museum & Library Services (RE-246336-OLS-20) project HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living) at the Library via Co-Developed Programming. He earned his dissertation in 2016 from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science.