Vanessa Lynn KitzieVanessa L. Kitzie is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA. She holds a PhD in Communication, Library, and Information Science fom Rutgers University. She received the 2025 University of South Carolina Garnett Apple Award for Teaching Excellence and is co-author of LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Children’s Librarianship: Queer–Positive Policies, Programs, and Practices with Lucy Santos Green, Jenna Spiering, and Julia Erlanger (2022). Read More Read Less