Co-director of Books We Read since 2022, Becky Diamond is the Business Instruction Librarian for Rutgers – New Brunswick, located at the Carr Library on Livingston campus. Her position involves assisting with library instruction for RBS (Rutgers Business School) classes (both undergraduate and graduate), helping students find resources specific to various business classes and assignments. In the past, she has worked for companies including Dow Jones, Korn/Ferry International, Johnson & Johnson and InfoDesk. She has also been writing and blogging about food since 2008, parlaying her passion for food and history into the publication of two books, Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School and The Thousand Dollar Dinner. Her latest book, The Gilded Age Cookbook, was published by Globe Pequot in August 2023.
Becky has a B.A. in journalism from Rider University and an MLS from Rutgers.