Cas Laskowski is veteran, librarian, gamer, teacher, Latina, techie, comic book nerd, and empiricist in perpetual beta. Currently the Head of Research, Data, & Instruction at the University of Arizona, she leverages her various skillsets to bolster faculty scholarship and train legal changemakers. She employs co-creative, critical pedagogy to empower students to be an active part of their learning, and collaborates with the Innovation for Justice Lab to “create new, replicable, and scalable strategies for legal empowerment.”

A leader in her profession, Cas creates communities to uplift and support, advocates for diverse and inclusive spaces, and openly shares her resources and experience with her peers.  She regularly writes and presents about the impact of technology on libraries and the legal practice. She co-edited and published the open access textbook Introduction to Law Librarianship, the only current textbook on our profession, which has been included in Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf on HeinOnline. And she was a founding fellow of the IDEA Institute on AI, an innovative weeklong workshop to develop and and train a community of information science professionals. 

Her areas of interest include legal data and information infrastructures that reduce the A2J gap, ethical use of machine learning systems to bolster library service and law practice, and co-collaborative pedagogies that empower learners.

More details about my work and experience can by found on my CV.