JJ Pionke

JJ Pionke is a librarian and disability advocate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he has been since 2014. with an adjunct position at Syracuse University since 2019.

Career
As part of his work, he has created research guides on various disabilities including chronic illness and limb difference used at his library and adapted for elsewhere. Physical changes were also made to the library based on his work, including "installing a handrail to the interior ramp near the Interlibrary Loan services, rebuilding the west-entry ramp to Library 66 and adding more signs."

Pionke was recognized as one of Library Journal's Movers and Shakers in 2020 for his work on improving accessibility in the university library system.