DEBORAH YUN CALDWELL

DATA LIBRARIAN & PRIVACY ADVOCATE

Deborah Yun Caldwell is the Data Services Librarian at the University of North Texas.

She was previously the 2018-2021 Diversity Resident Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where her work focused on equity in academia and supporting early-career librarians of color. Deborah serves on the steering committee for theĀ PEGI Project, advocating to ensure access to public government information. She is also a member of theĀ Library Freedom Project, where she works with other privacy advocates to equip librarians and their communities with the skills and knowledge to help mitigate the harms of living in a surveillance society.

Deborah studied anthropology and Jewish studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and she holds a Master of Information Science from the University of North Texas.

Her professional interests lie in exploring the intersections of data stewardship, privacy, cultural memory, and the justice of information access.