Katie Kiekhafer served for 12 years as the Head of Youth Services at Whitefish Bay Public Library. Before that, she worked at Community Library in Western Kenosha County and at the Cedarburg Public Library. She is active in the Wisconsin library community: acting as chair of Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) Youth Services Section in 2019, presenting at the WLA annual conference in 2012, 2015, and 2019, and most recently serving as a mentor for WLA’s mentorship program in 2024. From 2022-2025, Katie was a member of the CCBC’s external advisory board. Katie has a B.A. degree in English from Carroll College in Waukesha (now Carroll University) and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.