About this speaker
Dr. Patin is an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Her research focuses on the equity of information. She is the co-founder of the Library Information Investigative Team and a recipient of the Meredith Teaching Award for Early Excellence. Currently, she is working on projects about epistemicide, defined as the silencing, killing, or devaluing of knowledge systems, libraries during disaster and crisis, and digital humanities and the Civil Rights Movement.