Jason Roe is a digital history specialist at the Kansas City Public Library. He is content manager and editor for the award-winning websites, The Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression and Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865. He is also co-editor of the book, Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era (University Press of Kansas, 2018). Prior to joining the Library, he earned his PhD in American History, African American History, and Medical History from the University of Kansas (May 2012).

David LaCrone is the Digital Branch Manager at Kansas City (MO) Public Library where he coordinates digital platforms and services for patrons and staff. He oversees web development, digitization, end-user support and third-party integrations for most of the Library’s digital outlets. He holds an MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA from Oberlin College.

Katie Sowder is the Digital History Collections Librarian at the Kansas City (MO) Public Library. She works with the library’s Digital Branch and Missouri Valley Special Collections to digitize archival collections and create and maintain metadata for the library’s digital history projects, including The Pendergast Years and the 1940 Tax Assessment Photograph Collection. She received an MLIS from the University of Missouri School of Information Science & Learning Technologies and a BA from DePaul University.