Hello, and thank you for visiting! With more than a decade's worth of experience in libraries, I have developed expertise in information literacy instruction, evidence-based practice, scholarly communication, project management, and program leadership. My research interests include race and gender in librarianship, critical information literacy and peer learning in higher education, and the intersections of reproductive labor and information work.
After a lengthy stint in California, I now live in Iowa with my people, cats, and chickens. In my free time, I enjoy exploring nature, kayaking, gardening, and rediscovering the beauty and idiosyncrasies of the Midwest.
Most notably, I wrote "The Legacy of Lady Bountiful: White Women in the Library" (2016) and was editor of Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science (Library Juice Press, 2017). I have served as a journal editor and reviewer, authored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and presented at numerous library science, gender studies, and higher education venues.
I am currently co-editing, with Alanna Aiko Moore and Renée A. Rau, Information, Power, and Reproductive Health (Library Juice Press, forthcoming).
You can find my work in College & Research Libraries, Library Trends, Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, Credit-bearing
Information Literacy Courses: Critical Approaches, and more.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5419-3897
See my curriculum vitae for a complete list of publications, conference presentations, and other work.
From Lady Bountiful to Librarian Cute: Tracing Race and Gender in LIS
Reproductive Failure: Neoliberal Bodies & Invisible Labor (20:00)
On Structures & Self-Work: Locating Anti-Racist Politics in LIS, with David James Hudson