Kenya Siana Flash was a remarkable woman. She touched the lives of many people in so many ways. She was warm, kind, charitable, and willing to share herself with anyone that crossed her path.  She will be greatly missed by family, friends, colleagues, and students.
She was born into a large family in Jamaica on July 14 1980.  She would live there for the first years of her life enjoying laughs and fostering the love of learning that she carried the rest of her life.  She would eventually move to Buffalo, New York in the United States with her mother and other children.  From there, the family bounced around to a few places.  Kenya would become a United States citizen, a fact that she held dear. 
After high school, Kenya would head off to Lafayette College where she would gain her Bachaleor's Degree in Government.  She would not be done with her education, but there would be a few year break before she finished. During this time, she held many jobs that she used to meet new people and learn new skills.  She would eventually make her way to East Stroudsburg University where she earned her Master's Degree in Political Science.  
She made her way to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania where she worked as the Late Night Access and Lending supervisor at Swarthmore College library.  She then worked at King's College library.  Her enjoyments of learning and helping others combined with a budding love of teaching began to come together.  She decided to become an academic librarian, a goal that she put her all into.
Kenya went to Drexel University to get her Master's of Library Science degree.  She worked hard and graduated happily looking forward to her future.  She would take this typical Kenya attitude to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  While there, she would touch even more lives in her positive and warm ways.  She enjoyed her time, but wanted to grow more and found an opportunity to do that at Yale University. 
Kenya moved to Conneticut where she gave her all.  She was always striving to learn, grow, and teach.  During her tenure at Yale, she took on a role teaching, continuing to be published, and editing a book with two colleagues.
Over the years, Kenya did many, many impressive things that she would simply shrug off as normal.  This was never done in boast, it was just her way.  She would be the support that helped anyone achieve their aims.  She was too kind, sweet, loving, and open.  She loved many different things over the course of her life enjoying books, foreign television and movies, history, politics, math, and music.
After touching so many varied lives in so many places, it will be hard for people to fill the void she leaves behind.  We ask that people share their memories, photos, music, or videos with her.  We will all miss the joy and light that she brought to our lives.