Kate McDowell

Dr. Kate McDowell has worked with regional, national, and international nonprofits including the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO, part of WHO, on an Anti-Infodemic Virtual Center addressing mis/dis/malinformation in health contexts) and the Public Library Association (PLA, speaking about data storytelling). Her nationally-funded project Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians with co-PI Dr. Matthew Turk is underway. She has trained advancement professionals across the University of Illinois system (Chicago, Springfield, Urbana-Champaign) and provided storytelling consulting for multiple statewide and national nonprofits and consortia. Kate received the 2022 ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award for her innovative storytelling and data storytelling teaching.