Natalia Devlin is Language and Immigrant Services Coordinator at Arapahoe Libraries, an immigrant, an advocate and a former adult educator. She holds a degree in linguistics and education from Novosibirsk State University, Masters of Science in Information and Library Science from SUNY Buffalo, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages certificate from Arizona State University, and is certified as Reflective Community Conversation Facilitator by Colorado Humanities. In her current role (and on a team with other multilingual colleagues), Natalia creates programs, outreach and other services for immigrant and language communities in her area. Outside of her role with Arapahoe Libraries, she also chairs the board of Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning (a Colorado nonprofit with a mission to build a thriving intercultural community through learning, language access, and advocacy), serves on the New Americans Community Advisory Committee with the Colorado Office of New Americans and is active in a couple of advocacy coalitions. Her past conference presentations included COTESOL 2016, CAEPA 2018, COTESOL 2024, Colorado Creative Industries Summit 2025, and a poster session at IFLA WLIC 2025. She received Colorado Association of Libraries President's recognition at CALCON 2024. Natalia speaks English, Russian and German fluently and is getting started with learning Spanish.