Professor Kate McDowell’s interdisciplinary work examines how storytelling plays a vital role in humanizing data analysis and communication. She focuses on storytelling as information research and how the history of library storytelling informs data storytelling. Her book for libraries, Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact, came out in 2025. Her article for information scholars, “Storytelling Wisdom: Story, information, and DIKW,” theorized story as a fundamental information form. She leads the nationally-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project to equip libraries with narrative tools for data-informed advocacy, which has been used by over 5,000 librarians in over 50 countries so far. As of 2025, she had delivered over forty invited talks and over a dozen keynotes on her work to nonprofit organizations nationally and internationally. She won the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2022.
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