Kate Blinn has been Academic Outreach Librarian and Social Sciences liaison at Earlham since 2012. She loves her fishbowl office and working with students on how to design qualitative research. She has been teaching as part of the LIFT program since its first year and enjoys playing this important role in the lives of first-year first-generation college students. She also teaches a first-year seminar about autobiographical storytelling and cultural anthropology.