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Librarian and Community Outreach Specialist
About Louise Douglas
In 2019, Louise Douglas co-designed the 'StoryWalk® Equity Pilot' in three Rust Belt cities, replacing laminated pages stapled to lampposts with bilingual, tactile storyboards embedded in bus shelters and laundromats, each featuring local artists and elders narrating chapters in English, Spanish, and Ojibwe. She didn’t just bring books into underserved neighborhoods; she reimagined literacy as ambient, intergenerational, and spatially embedded, where a mother waiting for the 42B could trace Braille text beside her child while listening to a Hmong grandmother’s voice describing the illustrations. Her work resists the ‘outreach as event’ model: instead, she trains barbershop owners to curate micro-libraries of oral-history zines, partners with community land trusts to install weatherproof poetry kiosks on vacant lots, and insists that every literacy initiative include stipends, not just for authors, but for readers who co-design assessment tools. Louise’s sensibility is rooted in the quiet conviction that access isn’t measured in book counts, but in how many ways a person can claim authorship over their own narrative terrain.
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- “How did you adapt StoryWalks for neighborhoods with low broadband and high multigenerational housing?”
- “What’s one literacy tool you’ve retired—and why?”
- “Can you share a time a community rejected your outreach plan—and how it changed your approach?”
- “How do you measure success when a ‘reading program’ has no attendance logs or test scores?”