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Jennifer Peterson joined the WebJunction team in 2005. In her role as Community Manager, she manages WebJunction’s webinar programming, supports grant projects, and works with the WebJunction.orgwebsite and our social media presence. Jennifer loves being a part of a great big group of collaborators and believes that the success of a community depends on its capacity to learn together. She previously worked in many of the Northwest’s public libraries beginning in 1993 and interned at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation while completing the MLIS program at the University of Washington Information School. She has served on the board of the Association for Rural & Small Libraries and was a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.
Brooke Doyle joined the WebJunction team in 2017 to work on Supercharged Storytimes for All. Brooke’s expertise in curriculum development and grant management serve her well at WebJunction where her latest projects include Creating Pathways to Civil Legal Justice, Digital Collections Stewardship, and the newest grant to re-imagine the ABLE courses. Brooke has a personal and professional interest in the role libraries can play in promoting social connection and has enjoyed presenting on this topic to a WebJunction audience, at ARSL, and at a staff development day.
Brooke has an Interdisciplinary Bachelor’s and a MEd. from the University of Virginia.
Keren Dali, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the LIS program, University of Denver, and a former academic librarian. With degrees in social work and information science, she’s been focusing her scholarly and teaching efforts on reading practices of multilingual readers, the reading experience of adults, and disability and workplace equity. She practiced bibliotherapy as a social worker and has been teaching it as part of her graduate LIS courses for 15 years, stressing the difference between therapeutic interventions through reading and reader services. Keren will discuss the dangers of reading, the limitations of engagement with stories, and the responsible practice of bibliotherapy in libraries.
Kaite Mediatore Stover is the Director of Readers’ Services for The Kansas City Public Library. She holds Masters degrees in Library Science and English Literature from Emporia State University. Stover is the co-editor of The Readers’ Advisory Handbook (ALA Editions 2010) with Jessica E. Moyer. She has contributed chapters to Research-Based Readers’ Advisory (ALA Editions 2008) and Integrated Advisory Service (Libraries Unlimited 2010). Stover is a founding member and Steering Committee member for LibraryReads. She is the recipient of many awards, including the 2018 Margaret E. Monroe Award, 2012 Allie Beth Martin Award, and was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2003. Follow her on Instagram @KaiteStover.