[5] She received a dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in law and society and African American studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991.

[10] In the private sector, she worked as community investment strategist at Boeing’s Global Corporate Citizenship Division.

[3] In 2023-2024 Hall is visiting fellow at the University of London Royal Holloway College, researching the impact of Brexit on public libraries in the United Kingdom.

In 2009 Hall keynoted at the International Federation of Library Associations in Bologna, Italy: "The 10 Ways Visionary Librarianship Can Change the World."

Writing in Time magazine in 2023 Hall quoted Senator Wendell Ford: "If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.