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Kate McDowell regularly teaches courses on storytelling and data storytelling within the field of Information Sciences. Her research focuses on various aspects of storytelling, including social justice storytelling, data storytelling, library storytelling, and health misinformation storytelling. McDowell's work engages with libraries and non-profit organizations, leveraging storytelling as a tool for advocacy and education. She has collaborated with national and international non-profit organizations, such as the Pan-American Health Organization and the Public Library Association. McDowell is also a co-Principal Investigator on a nationally funded project titled Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians, which aims to enhance libraries' capacity to use data storytelling in their services. She has held leadership positions, including interim associate dean for Academic Affairs, where she led transformative projects within her school. McDowell has received multiple awards for her teaching and contributions to the field, including the ASIST Outstanding Information Science Teacher award and the Excellence Online Distance Teaching Award from the University of Illinois.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Currently teaches and conducts research in the field of Information Sciences, focusing on storytelling and its applications.
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