As a 20+ veteran educator, her passion and research interests focus on audiobooks, books for youth, library space planning, and programming. Dr. Brock is also the co-founder of GUYS LISTEN, part of the national literacy initiative GUYS READ. In 2014, The Texas Library Association awarded her with the Siddie Jo Johnson Award for Outstanding Library Service to Children in Texas. Rose has served on a number of national and state book awards committees and also freelances for several publishers where she creates educational marketing materials for books. In 2015, she helped launch the North Texas Teen Book Festival, winner of the 2017 ALA John Cotton Dana Award.