Ms. Magness is a native to Illinois and received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College of Chicago in Communications. She has a masters of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in New York City  and is a certified Library Media Specialist in both Illinois and New York state.  This is her second year at Pulaski International School of Chicago.

Through the Library Media program she hopes that Pulaski students will be experts in Information Literacy.  This means they will be able to navigate, process, and express in their own words the incredible amount of information available to them.  She also hopes that they will be avid and life long readers.  There are over 8,000 books to choose from in the library!

Her hobbies including biking, baking, and of course reading picture books and young adult novels.  She has two cats she loves very much.