Kate McDowell is Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a former children's librarian and has been teaching storytelling since 2007. Her presentations and writings bring together the tools of storytelling from library and information science with many areas, including fundraising, career preparation, and public service. Her current research projects are about faculty-authored bookplate dedications, social justice storytelling, and what storytelling from libraries can teach the information sciences.