Dr. Kate McDowell focuses on social justice storytelling, data storytelling, and storytelling as information research. Her writing appears in Library Quarterly, College and Research Libraries, and JASIST. She leads the nationally-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project to equip libraries with narrative tools for data-informed advocacy. McDowell is an associate professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.