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Jill Sodt
Mott Community College

Jill Sodt is the director of library services at Mott Community College in Flint, MI. Jill has been a member of ACRL for 14 years and is currently serving as the Chair of the ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS).

 

Building Foundational Data Literacy: Innovative Programs and Initiatives

February 3, 2025 - 12:00 PM CST

Gabriele Hayden
University of Oregon

Gabriele Hayden is an Associate Librarian and Head of Data Services at the University of Oregon Libraries. She leads workshops and consults with students, faculty, and researchers on research data management, data sourcing and sharing, qualitative data analysis, and quantitative data cleaning and visualization in R, Python, Excel, and Power BI. Gabriele holds a PhD in English Literature from Yale University and a BA in English from Reed College. She has written about reproducible research best practices and is always looking to deepen her skills by contributing code or data wrangling to co-authored papers.

Ashley Rockwell
Georgia State University

Ashley Rockwell is a Data Literacy & Learning Specialist and a member of the Research Data Services Department at Georgia State University Library. She has led the development, implementation, and assessment of the Get Data Ready! initiative, which focuses on building data literacy curriculum and programming for undergraduates through course-based instruction, video tutorials, data-related micro-credentials, and data events (e.g. Love Data Week, Scary Data Week, Data in the ATL and Hack4Good). 

Engaging Faculty and Administrators: Effective Approaches to Data Literacy

February 12, 2025 - 12:00 PM CST

Theresa Burress
University of South Florida

Theresa Burress is an Associate Librarian at University of South Florida, liaison for students and faculty in College of Marine Science, CAS Mathematics & Statistics, and Honors College. Theresa’s research explores the intersections between information and data literacy, student research success, and digital scholarship. Her research is practitioner focused, while advancing theory within librarianship and expanding the professional framework for data literacy. Recent publications investigate the value and relevance of data literacy from the perspective of faculty and students in higher education, especially as related to the support of student research success.

Clarence Maybee
Purdue University

Clarence Maybee is Associate Dean for Learning and the W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy at Purdue University Libraries. With more than 10 years of experience as an information literacy educator in higher education, Clarence's research focuses on uncovering the experiences of information literacy in higher education to inform pedagogical practices that better help students engage with information as they learn. He received his PhD from the Gateway PhD program, jointly offered by San Jose State University and Queensland University of Technology, and his MLIS from San Jose State University. 

Addressing Diverse Data Literacy Needs: Strategic Solutions for Students

February 19, 2025 - 12:00 PM CST

Jesse Akman
Elon University

Jesse Akman is the Health and Life Sciences Librarian and Assistant Librarian at the Carol Grotnes Belk Library, Elon University. He currently serves as the library liaison to Elon’s life and health sciences programs, including, but not limited to, the School of Health Sciences, Public Health Studies, Exercise Science, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, and Neuroscience. He is also a member of the Department of Library Research and Scholarly Services, where his work focuses on Open Educational Resources, Open Access Publishing, and data visualization and management.

Ben Chiewphasa
Columbia University

Ben Chiewphasa is the Social Sciences and Policy Librarian at Columbia University, working closely with faculty and students on information literacy, research support, and collection development in the School of International and Public Affairs and several social science departments. Additionally, he is a certified Carpentries Instructor and Instructor Trainer and an alum of the ARL Kaleidoscope Program. Ben publishes and presents on data literacy, government information dissemination and access, and diversity matters in academic libraries. He holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, M.A. in Anthropology (Cultural Heritage) from the University of Montana, and B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology and Geosciences from Denison University.