April M. Dawkins is an assistant professor in library and information science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned her doctorate in library and information science from the University of South Carolina in May 2017, and earned her MLS from NC Central University and BA in history from Meredith College. April was the recipient of the Robert Williams Graduate Student Research Award at the University of South Carolina for her dissertation research on self-censorship. Prior to her doctoral studies, April served for fifteen years as a high school library media specialist in North Carolina, and is a past president of NCSLMA.