Kate McDowell is Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has been teaching storytelling for 15 years. Her presentations and writings elaborate new theories of storytelling, bringing together the tools of storytelling from library and information science with many areas, including fundraising and social justice. Her current research projects are about what storytelling from libraries can teach the information sciences, and her team is building the IMLS-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians.