JJ Pionke is a librarian and disability advocate. He served as Applied Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2014 to 2023, and has served as an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University since 2019 teaching Accessible Library and Information Services.
Pionke graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Master of Library and Information Science in 2013.
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 Journals Movers and Shakers in 2020 for his work on improving accessibility in the university library system. Pionke is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration.
Pionke is also the editor of the open access journal Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS). He has published a number of reviews in DisLIS, as well as interviews with disability scholar Margaret Price and authors Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan.