Kayla Abner is enthusiastic about teaching as a means to empower students and scholars to create meaningful and feasible digital projects. She takes a social justice approach to digital scholarship, whether that involves helping scholars understand the ethics of data collection and use, or encouraging students to highlight non-dominant perspectives in their digital storytelling projects. Kayla’s interests in digital scholarship include web scraping, data curation and visualization, text mining, and digital mapping. She holds a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.