Emeritus Editorial Board Members
- Derik Badman is one of our founders. He did most of the design for our site and all of our author illustrations. [articles]
- Brett Bonfield is a co-founder of In the Library with the Lead Pipe and the executive director of the Princeton Public Library (as of January 19, 2016). He likes running, podcasts, serial commas, and baseball analysis. [articles]
- Ellie Collier is a co-founder of In the Library with the Lead Pipe who served as an author and editor for 8 magnificent years. She is so incredibly proud of everything the journal has accomplished. When not at work she is probably playing board, card, or video games or reading feminist critiques of them and/or their culture and communities. [articles]
- Nicole Cooke is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and an Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of South Carolina. As of 2023, her newest books are Information Services to Diverse Populations (Libraries Unlimited, 2016) and Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-truth Era (ALA Editions. 2018).
- Ikumi Crocoll is the Instruction and Engagement Librarian at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Outside of her job, she enjoys singing (especially early music) and indulging her Anglophile tastes (ex.: 19th century British literature).
- Hilary Davis is a co-founder of In the Library with the Lead Pipe. [articles]
- Erin Dorney is a poet, writer, and editor based in Minnesota. [articles]
- Leigh Anne Focareta [articles]
- Emily Ford is one of our founders. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and spends her non-library time with cappuccino, bicycles, yoga, and cats. [articles]
- Eric Frierson lives in Austin, TX. He is a father and a doughnut aficionado. [articles]
- Amy Koester is the Learning Experiences Manager at Skokie Public Library. When not librarianing, she is probably enjoying talking about and listening to One Direction, reading space opera, or cooking. [articles]
- Gretchen Kolderup [articles]
- Sofia Leung (she/her) is a librarian, facilitator, and educator offering tailored workshops, training, and consultations that employ anti-racist, anti-oppressive frameworks, in particular Critical Race Theory. She is currently an editor for the We Here publication, up//root, and a facilitator for the Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy Immersion Program. [articles]
- Annie Pho is the Head of Instruction and Outreach at the University of San Francisco. When she’s not librarian-ing, she can be found riding her bike around the city and hanging out with her cats. [articles]
- Bethany Radcliffe is a Reference and Instructional Design Librarian at Midway University. In her spare time, she drinks exorbitant amounts of tea, thrifts, and dabbles in interior design. [articles]
- Kim Leeder Reed is a co-founder of In the Library with the Lead Pipe, a 2011 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, and a 2008 American Library Association Emerging Leader. She lives in Boise, Idaho, where she serves as director of The College of Western Idaho Library. [articles]
- Lindsey Rae served as Lead Pipe’s Social Media Editor. She dabbles in all manner of hobbies and really likes owls.
- Hugh Rundle had great fun writing and editing with Lead Pipe. He worked with Gretchen to overhaul our documentation and internal processes. He is now putting his energy into newCardigan. [articles]
- Coral Sheldon-Hess served as our technology lead. She’s into technology, UX, crafting, and intersectional feminism.
- Denisse Solisis the Interim Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Denver. She enjoys spending time exercising, running, traveling, napping, eating good food, and spending time with loved ones. [articles]
- Micah Vandegrift wrote and edited with the Lead Pipe team after being a super fan for many years. [articles]
- Cecily Walker is Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver, Canada. When not holding court on Twitter, she enjoys riding her bike, watching bad TV shows, and movies with lots of explosions. [articles]
- Kellee Warren is the Instructor and Special Collections Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She enjoys anything that will allow her to creatively express herself, and she really loves pugs.