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Talks, Workshops, and Storytelling Recordings


Upcoming and Recent Talks
  • (Coming 2024) Keynote speaker, Library Research Seminar VIII at the University of Kentucky School of Information Science, sponsored by the Library Research Roundtable, American Library Association 
  • “Data Storytelling as Library Advocacy,” Augusta Baker Diversity Lecture Series, University of South Carolina, April 20, 2023
  • Keynote, “Data Storytelling Strategies,” Measures of Success Educator Impact, virtual conference for Michigan institutions of higher education, hosted by the University of Western Michigan, March 21, 2023  
  • “Storytelling and the Information Sciences: Explorations and Applications“ six-lecture series, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taipei City, Taiwan, June 20-26, 2022
  • “Communicating Research with Storytelling,” CARLI Counts seminar, Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, March 3, 2022
  • “Data Storytelling: Advocating for the Library and Community,” webinar in the Census Data Literacy project, Public Library Association, February 2, 2022
  • “Data Storytelling as Honest Information Management” with Dr. Matt Turk, for Data Curation and Information Management in the Age of Digital Transformation workshop, Kyushu-Illinois Strategic Partnership Colloquia Series, December 8, 2021
  • “Storytelling as Information Research,” Graduate School of Library and Information Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taipei City, Taiwan, November 14, 2021

Workshops
These workshops and talks have been offered to nonprofits, businesses, and universities as well as at the University of Illinois for campus-level Advancement, College of ​Media, College of Business, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Engineering, and College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences, nonprofits across the state including the Prairie Rivers Network, Library UX Chicago, and more.
  • Communicating Value through Storytelling
    • (for CARLI, December 2020)
  • Data Storytelling: Strategies and Structures (recording)
  • Storytelling Your Career (recording)​
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Storytelling Recordings
  • Story Songs on Sound Cloud
  • Storytelling Festival Audio Archive
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