Dr. Kate McDowell focuses on social justice storytelling, data storytelling, and storytelling as information research. The audiences for her publications span information science, education, marketing, philanthropy, library, and public health. Her article "Storytelling Wisdom" details her theory of humanizing data storytelling. Citations show value for research and practice in fields as varied as health information, artificial intelligence (AI), social networks, cultural heritage informatics, safety evaluation, misinformation studies, knowledge management, and more. Her transferrable model for building interdisciplinary storytelling toolkits has resulted in the nationally-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project to equip librarians and data analysts with narrative tools for data-informed advocacy. McDowell is on faculty at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.