Todd Hines is the Research Manager and Business Research Librarian at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a past chair of the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of the American Library Association.  He has been providing business and economics research support in academic libraries for over 20 years and his industry experience includes working in law, a private investigative firm and as a Certified Public Accountant. He received his MSLS from Catholic University and an MBA from George Mason University. 

Grace Liu is an Assistant Professor, Business Librarian at West Chester University. One of her research interests has been focused on exploring data quality issues. In 2020, she published an article on  business and finance data quality issues in the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship. Inspired by this research, she initiated this IMLS grant project along with other team members with the objective of raising awareness about data quality issues among librarians and enhancing the capacity of librarians to understand and address data quality challenges and cultivate data-literate citizens.

Patrick W. McLaughlin is a Research Agricultural Economist in the Food Economics Division of the USDA, Economic Research Service. He leads the team of economists managing and conducting research with the household and retail scanner data that ERS acquires from Information Resources, Inc. (IRI; now Circana). Patrick holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis.

Stephanie Tulley is a Senior Data Librarian for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, where she supports economists, research analysts, and data scientists in obtaining data to enable their scholarly research and monetary policy work. She manages data for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research Department and leads complex contract negotiations for resources used throughout the Federal Reserve System. Prior to her time in the Federal Reserve System, Stephanie was in academia serving the community of the University of California, Santa Barbara as the Economics, Business, and Social Science Data Librarian.