Alice Kallman is a born and raised New Yorker. After attending the University of Chicago and graduating with a BA in comparative race and ethnic studies and Latin American and Caribbean studies, she worked in New Orleans at a public defender's office. With new insight into the systemic inequity in information access, Kallman began her Master's in Library Science at Queens College. While here, she worked at the New York Public Library before receiving the Citi Center for Culture + Queens Public Library Fellowship, as well as the City University of New York’s Office of Library Services Scholarly Communications Fellowship. Post-graduation, she moved into correctional and reentry librarianship with the Queens Public Library and worked with graduate students providing dissertation and thesis support at the CUNY Graduate Center. Kallman has presented at conferences on topics of justice in librarianship, digital accessibility and algorithmic bias and was awarded a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Grant to continue a personal research project archiving Syrian food heritage and superstitions. Her current research interests include intersections between the Open Access movement, Artificial Intelligence and Critical Information Literacy.