Subject Librarian for Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Informatics, and Criminal Justice University at Albany
Abby Adams is the subject librarian for cybersecurity, criminal justice, emergency preparedness, game design, informatics, and security studies with the University at Albany Libraries. Her research focuses on misinformation, trust in information, and current challenges in information literacy.
Denise Agosto, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Communication and Information Rutgers University
With an academic career in library and information science spanning more than 25 years, Dr. Agosto’s teaching focuses on youth information behavior, misinformation, and public library services. She has published over 150 scholarly articles, conference papers, and book chapters in these areas, as well as three books, with a new book underway. A recipient of many research and teaching awards and grants, Dr. Agosto is proudest of having served as a Fulbright Scholar from 2002 to 2023 in southeastern Brazil, where she studied disinformation in social media during the Brazilian presidential campaign. Her most recent book is Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News, published by Libraries Unlimited. It addresses the roles of public, school, and academic libraries in promoting critical information literacy in an information ecosystem increasingly flooded with misleading and deceptive information.
Sharon Baller
Library Media Specialist Orchard Hill Elementary School, NJ
Sharon Baller has been an Elementary School Media Specialist in Montgomery Township for 23 years. Most of her tenure has been at her current school, Orchard Hill Elementary School, where she provides lessons and resources to students in grades Pre-K to second. Prior to that she worked in New Jersey public schools as a classroom teacher and Reading Specialist. She works hard to provide for the unique needs of all her learners so that all students are included and given instruction that allows them to succeed. She is excited to have had the opportunity to pilot the new Information Literacy curriculum. Ms. Baller believes that all students should be able to have resources and opportunities to learn by observation, experience and inquiry.
Susan Barry
English Language Arts Coordinator, Office of Standards New Jersey Department of Education
Susan Barry is the English Language Arts coordinator in the Office of Standards at the New Jersey Department of Education, where she is responsible for all functions related to the K-12 NJ Student Learning Standards for English Language Arts. Additionally, she is the co-architect of the framework that was used for the recent development of learning standards for information literacy.
Prior to her work at the NJ Department of Education, Susan spent 22 years as a classroom teacher of all levels of English in grades 9 through 12, and classical drama to students in grades 11 and 12. While teaching in rural southern New Jersey, she developed a Shakespeare Studies program which provided opportunities for underserved, reluctant, and differently-abled students to study and perform Shakespeare’s works. Her advocacy work has centered LGBTQ+ students and teachers as well as students who experience food insecurity.
Susan holds degrees from Temple University and Rowan University. She is the 2013 Gloucester County Teacher of the Year and was an America Achieves National Teacher Fellow from 2014 to 2016, where she conducted extensive research on food justice systems in middle and high school settings.
Linda W. Braun
Principal The LEO Group
Linda W. Braun is the Principal of The LEO Group, where she facilitates and manages projects with educational institutions and non-profit organizations focused on helping communities thrive. Her work is rooted equity and community engagement. In her practice, Linda aims to connect theoretical concepts with the practical realities of the day to day of libraries, schools, and communities. Linda previously taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, and Simmons University, and she is a co-author of Centering Community: Library Staff Responding to Crisis, a Field Guide. She also co-authored two reports on how library leaders and staff can foster transformative outcomes through community-centered practices. Linda holds a Masters of Science in Library Science from Simmons University and a Masters of Education from Lesley University.
Cody Buntain
Assistant Professor iSchool at the University of Maryland
Dr. Buntain studies social media and how people use these online spaces during moments of uncertainty and unrest. Central objectives in his work are three-fold: making these space more informative, better sources of connection, and more resilient against manipulation. Dr. Buntain grounds his work in two use-cases: crisis/conflict studies and online political engagement, as many questions that arise in times of disaster and conflict similarly arise in the lead up to elections and moments of social unrest. Socio-technical solutions to these issues are critical to supporting democratic systems. Dr. Buntain’s work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, WIRED, and others.
Elizabeth Burns
Interim Dean for University Libraries Old Dominion University
Dr. Elizabeth Burns serves as the Interim Dean for the University Libraries at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. She is an associate professor and the Program Director for the Library and Information Studies Program in the Darden College of Education and Professional Studies. Dr. Burns is a career educator who teaches library courses preparing graduate students for careers in library and information workplaces. Her research focuses on curriculum and instruction, assessment, library pedagogy and instruction, and information literacy.
Christine Casey-Roach
Library Media Specialist Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School
Christine Casey-Roach is a School Library Media Specialist at Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School in Trenton, New Jersey, where she teaches information and media literacy to students in grades 4-6. Through project-based learning and inquiry-driven instruction, she helps students develop research and digital citizenship skills. Prior to entering education, Christine worked as a marketing copywriter, an experience that has been useful in her Media Specialist role. She has been an active participant in the New Jersey State Library’s Information Literacy Pilot Program and is an avid supporter of media and information literacy in our global digital world.
Sue Ellen Christian
Professor of Communication Western Michigan University
Sue Ellen Christian is a professor of communication at Western Michigan University. She is the creator of the Wonder Media: Ask the Questions! website at www.wondermedialibrary.org, which was funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services Planning Grant. The website is a free and accessible tool aimed at tweens and teens with games, videos, interactive learning and lesson plans for educators and libraries, with a 9-module training for library staff coming in Fall 2026. She is producing CLICK: Connect IRL, a musical debuting in April 2027 for use by schools, libraries, communities and families to grow youth awareness of media and news literacy key concepts. Her most recent book is “Everyday Media Literacy: An Analog Guide to Your Digital Life” (2nd edition, 2024, Routledge). She is also the author of “Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture and Context” (2e, Routledge, 2021).
She created the 14-element interactive Wonder Media: Ask the Questions! exhibition for the Kalamazoo Valley Museum; during its 2021-2023 run, more than 137,000 people visited the museum. A former Chicago Tribune reporter, Christian is the recipient of writing and teaching awards, including Michigan Professor of the Year and the WMU Distinguished Teaching Award. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on inclusive narrative, media literacy, news literacy and community-based journalism.
Myojung Chung
Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Innovation Northeastern University
Myojung Chung is an associate professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University and a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her research sits at the intersection of digital media, misinformation, and artificial intelligence, with a central focus on algorithmic literacy as a framework for navigating today’s complex information environments. She is a leading voice in rethinking how individuals and institutions develop the critical capacities needed to evaluate, interpret, and engage with information in an algorithmically mediated world.
She has served as a U.S.-Korea Next Generation Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center. Before entering academia, she brought information work to life as a journalist at Yonhap News Agency and a strategic communication manager at SK Telecom, and has firsthand experience at the UN Headquarters and the Korean National Commission to UNESCO.
Kelley Cotter
Assistant Professor, Department of Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics The Pennsylvania State University
Kelley Cotter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics at The Pennsylvania State University. Before earning her Ph.D. in Information and Media from Michigan State University, she received her Master’s in Library and Information Science from Drexel University and worked as an academic librarian.
Her core research explores how people learn about, understand, and imagine digital technologies, particularly algorithms and AI. Her work was among the first to identify knowledge about algorithms as an essential literacy of our time and as an emerging frontier of digital inequality. Her forthcoming book with Oxford University Press examines critical algorithmic literacy, framing it not as a value-neutral or universal skillset, but as relational, contextual, and socially situated insights and practices that support bottom-up governance. She has received research funding from the National Science Foundation and Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, and her work appears in leading venues including New Media & Society;Information, Communication & Society; and the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI); and has been featured in public-facing outlets such as CNN, Mashable, and Fast Company.
Chris Coward
Senior Principal Research Scientist and Affiliate Associate Professor University of Washington Information School
Chris Coward is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. His research examines how people navigate complex information environments, with a particular focus on designing approaches that foster individual and community agency. Recent work includes the creation of escape rooms and other play-based experiences informed by sociocultural approaches to information, media, and civic literacy. Chris works closely with communities around the world to co-design, implement, and study interventions in culturally diverse contexts, frequently partnering with public libraries as sites of learning and community-based action.
At the University of Washington Chris co-founded the Center for Internet Studies in 1999, which later became the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), a research center that explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies. In 2019, Chris was one of five principal investigators to establish the Center for an Informed Public, a nexus for multidisciplinary research on misinformation and translating research into policy, technology design, curriculum development, and public engagement.
Dr. Aaron J. Elkins
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies Texas Woman’s University
Dr. Aaron J. Elkins is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University. His current research focuses on unpacking social information culture and improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the LIS field and academy.
Before entering academia, he served as a school librarian for ten years, during which time he achieved National Board Certification. Dr. Elkins earned his Ph.D. in information studies at Florida State University.
Reanna Esmail
Lead Librarian for Instruction Cornell University
Reanna Esmail is the lead librarian for instruction at Cornell University. Working in Olin Library’s Research and Learning Services Department, she oversees the library’s information literacy program, provides in-person and virtual reference help, and supports the research and collection needs of Asian American studies, feminist studies, gender & sexuality studies, game studies, media studies, and philosophy. She holds an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an MA in English from the Freie Universität Berlin, and a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Reanna previously served as a co-primary investigator on an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)–funded grant project to create open educational resources for algorithmic literacy. She is also a 2024-2025 Association for Research Libraries Leadership and Career Development Fellow and Minnesota Institute alum. Currently, she is a columnist for American Libraries magazine, Library Freedom Project member, steering committee member for Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, and a member of New York State Library’s Regents Advisory Council. As a library instructor, Reanna is particularly interested in critical pedagogy and providing services for various campus communities, especially those that have historically been underserved and underrepresented. Her research interests include intellectual freedom, targeted online harassment self-defense, data brokerage, and algorithmic literacy.
Crosby Kemper III
Former Director IMLS
Rufus Crosby Kemper III served as the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) from January 2020 – March 2024. Previously, he was director of the Kansas City Public Library from 2005 until 2020. Under his leadership, the Kansas City Public Library received the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, awarded to American libraries and museums with outstanding service to their communities.
Kemper was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He then attended the Phillips Academy, Eton College, and Yale University.
Charlotte Kiger Price
Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian Carnegie Mellon University
Charlotte Kiger Price is Senior Faculty Librarian for Humanities & Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, where she supports students and faculty at all levels, with particular focus on first-year writing pedagogy, primary source instruction, and hands-on community programming centered on physical materials and making. She is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in Technology, Media, & Learning at Teachers College, Columbia University, where her research examines the role of memes in reshaping how people encounter, interpret, and dismiss information — and the gaps this exposes in traditional literacy frameworks.
She serves as editor of the Media and Mis/Dis/Information Literacy section of the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies (POEM), an open educational resource collection at Carnegie Mellon addressing AI, data, and media and disinformation literacies. She holds an M.L.I.S. from Drexel University and has previously held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Sarah Lawrence College, and Barnard College. A second-generation librarian, she got her start delivering books to homebound patrons by tricycle for her local public library.
Courtney Gross
Researcher American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Courtney Gross is a researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where her work focuses on the intersection of instructional design and educational assessment. She collaborates with state agencies, districts, and educators to develop research informed resources that promote high-quality instructional materials and practices across academic and civic contexts. Her recent work includes designing K–12 information literacy activities and instructional frameworks that support authentic, engaging learning experiences for students.
With a background in education and a strong interest in usability and accessibility, Courtney brings a practitioner informed perspective to her work. She is particularly interested in how instructional tools, assessments, and learning experiences can be designed to make complex concepts transparent and actionable for educators and students alike.
Jennifer Latimer
School Media Specialist South Orange & Maplewood School District
Since 2011, Jennifer Latimer has been an advocate for school libraries and the power of information. Most recently, she has focused on the four pillars of information literacy as it relates to the New Jersey state standards with an emphasis on how these standards are foundational to library work. She believes that librarians are positioned to be leaders in our current and future learning environments.
Jennifer Latimer is the School Media Specialist at Clinton Elementary School in Maplewood, New Jersey and Vice President of the Maplewood Memorial Library Board of Trustees. She is the recipient of the Ruth Toor Outstanding Library Media Specialist award in 2021 in addition to the Making IT Happen award in 2019. She believes that there is power in positive teaching and that libraries are vital parts of our schools and communities.
Mizuko (Mimi) Ito
Cultural Anthropologist University of California, Irvine
Mizuko (Mimi) Ito is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist who has studied young people’s engagement with digital technology for thirty years in the United States and Japan. She is Director of the Connected Learning Lab and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California, Irvine.
Her work centers on how to tap student interests and digital media to fuel learning that is engaging, relevant, inclusive, and socially connected. Her studies include research on the emergence of children’s edutainment software, the growth of mobile media culture and otaku culture in Japan, social media and network and games in the US, and the worldwide adoption of networked Japanese children’s media such as Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. More recently, her work has focused on how educators, technologists, and parents can honor young people’s diverse interests and identities, tapping their interests and digital engagements to power learning, support wellbeing, and civic engagement.
She has two PhDs from Stanford University, in Education and Anthropology, and an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University.
Siwei Lyu
Director, Institute for AI and Data Science University at Buffalo
Siwei Lyu is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Director of the Institute for AI and Data Science, and the founding Co-Director of the Center for Information Integrity (CII) at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. Dr. Lyu’s research interests include media forensics, computer vision, and machine learning. He has published over 240 refereed journal and conference papers. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, and a Distinguished Member of ACM.
Amy Mikel
Senior Director of Customer Experience Brooklyn Public Library
Amy Mikel is the Senior Director of Customer Experience at Brooklyn Public Library, responsible for implementing exceptional library services in the areas of reference, circulation and collections across 62 branch locations. She oversees the Library’s strategic decision-making for circulating print, media, eBooks and database collections as well as the processes and policies which govern patron account management and materials circulation. She publishes and presents widely in the areas of information literacy and patron access.
Mikel has received several awards for her work in information literacy instruction at the public library, including a Library Journal “Mover & Shaker” Innovator award, an ALA Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) Innovation in Instruction award, and an Urban Libraries Council Top Innovator in Adult Educator award. In 2022 Mikel created and implemented an IMLS-funded information literacy course for public libraries across New York State. Her philosophies on teaching information literacy skills to the everyday adult learner can be found in the recently published “Critical Information Literacy Applications for All Libraries” (ALA Editions, 2025).
Rebecca Mazur, PhD
Senior Evaluation and Research Scientist, and Director of the Center for Emerging Educational Practice Collaborative for Educational Services
Rebecca Mazur, MLS, PhD is Director of the Center for Emerging Educational Practices and Senior Research & Evaluation Scientist at the Collaborative for Educational Services in Massachusetts, where she leads AI literacy initiatives including the development of the state’s official AI Literacy resources. Her research and evaluation work spans multi-year partnerships with organizations including Meta and the National Science Foundation, and her scholarship has been published in the American Journal of Evaluation, Educational Administration Quarterly, and other peer-reviewed journals.
A former high school librarian, Rebecca holds an MLS from Simmons College in Boston and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy & Research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She brings a practitioner’s lens to her work on emerging technologies in education, grounded in the conviction that young people should have a central role in shaping how we understand and respond to AI in schools and libraries.
Jin Ha Lee
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, & Director of the GAMER (GAME Research) Group University of Washington Information School
Jin Ha Lee is a Professor and the Founding Director of the GAMER (GAME Research) Group at the University of Washington Information School. She holds an M.S. (2002) and a Ph.D. (2008) in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on methods for organizing and accessing popular music, multimedia, and interactive media, as well as understanding user behavior in media creation and consumption. She also explores the use of popular media for informal learning in libraries and museums. Recently, her work has centered on designing games and play-based activities, such as escape rooms, Minecraft, and TTRPG, to enhance public understanding of misinformation and support information literacy in navigating the complex information ecosystem. She also investigates how people encounter and develop strategies for dealing with misinformation within fan communities.
Jennifer R. Nelson
State Librarian New Jersey State Library
Serving as New Jersey’s state librarian since February 2021, Jen Nelson has worked in and for libraries for over 30 years. Prior to joining the New Jersey State Library she led the Charter Center and State Library Services at the Minnesota Department of Education, working with talented teams of staff to provide high quality services to Minnesotans through charter schools and libraries. At the Minneapolis Public and Hennepin County libraries from 1988- 2011, Jen led a variety of projects related to small business development, digital inclusion, electronic resources and technology programming for teens. She holds master’s degrees in political science and library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo is in political science. She is the author of several articles and 21st Century Literacy: Technology Programming for Children and Teens (ALA Editions, 2012).
Pamela Morris
Associate Professor, Communication Studies Indiana University Columbus
Pamela L. Morris is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Indiana University Columbus who specializes in media studies and new media. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University in Media, Technology, and Society. Prior to entering higher education, Dr. Morris studied computer science and worked as a programmer and certified project manager in IT. Her primary research interests include media literacy, media law, and the uses and effects of technology on communication processes, particularly as these intersect with social justice. She especially enjoys teaching and is passionate about media literacy education, advocating for media literacy as the key to a fair, compassionate, and informed world.
Kelsey O’Brien
Information Literacy Librarian University at Albany
Kelsey O’Brien is an Information Literacy Librarian at the University at Albany who primarily works with first year students. She has used gamification techniques to help students develop a growth mindset as they transition from high school to college level research. She is currently working on an IMLS-funded grant to digitize a game that teaches students how to detect misinformation. She has also published a book on Teaching with Digital Badges and developed a digital badging system for metaliteracy. She has previously worked as a high school library media specialist and a youth services librarian.
Doug Paulson
Senior Technical Assistance Consultant American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Doug Paulson is a Senior Technical Assistance Consultant at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he supports state education agencies in revising and implementing academic standards, advancing policy development, and strengthening professional learning systems to improve student outcomes. With over 25 years of experience as an educator, administrator, and policy leader, he brings deep expertise in instructional practice, education policy, STEM integration and equity-centered reform.
Prior to joining AIR, Doug served more than a decade at the Minnesota Department of Education, directing statewide standards development and implementation across science, computer science, literacy, mathematics, social studies, the arts, health and physical education, and gifted education. He is known for translating research into practical strategies that build educator capacity and expand equitable access to high-quality learning. His leadership spans multiple states and national consortia, guiding cross-sector teams in advancing education systems. Doug has provided professional development and policy advising across the United States and internationally, including in Japan. He has contributed to publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Science Teaching Association, and has served in nonprofit board roles supporting non-formal education. His collaborative leadership bridges policy and practice to advance future-ready skills in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Lee Ann Potter
Director of Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Library of Congress
Lee Ann Potter is the Director of Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives at the Library of Congress, where she has worked since 2013. She leads a talented team committed to informing, inspiring, and engaging the Library’s nationwide connectors—specifically educators, librarians, early researchers, and literacy champions—by developing educational programs and materials largely based on primary sources. She directs the Library’s Teaching with Primary Sources grant program, the Library’s Literacy Awards program, and the Affiliated Centers for the Book. Before coming to the Library, she created and directed education and volunteer programs at the National Archives and Records Administration for 16 years. Prior to that, she worked at the Smithsonian on a project to build museum-school partnerships, and before that, was a high school social studies teacher. During the 2009-10 school year, she served as a Fulbright Roving Scholar of American Studies in Norway. She has conducted hundreds of presentations and has written more than one hundred articles promoting teaching with primary sources and information literacy.
Dr. Kasie Roberson
Clinical Associate Professor Purdue University Daniels School of Business
Dr. Kasie Roberson is a nationally recognized strategic communication expert, author, and award-winning Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, where she helps current and future leaders master people-first communication and AI best practices. As Head of the Center for Working Well’s Hayes Leadership Coaching Institute she inspires people to lead confidently with empathy, clarity, and authenticity. Kasie is regularly invited to speak at events inside and outside of Purdue. In 2025, she was a main stage speaker at Hello Sunshine/Sunnie’s Sunniefest in Dallas, Texas. She was also featured on “This Is Purdue” Podcast episode 140, where she discusses AI and authenticity. It is available wherever you get your podcasts, including on YouTube.
Beth Simone Noveck
Professor and Author Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy
Beth’s work focuses on using AI to reimagine participatory democracy and strengthen governance, and she has spent her career helping institutions incorporate more equitable and open ways of working using new technology. Her newest book Reboot: AI and The Race to Save Democracy will appear with Yale University Press and she writes daily about AI and democracy on her blog RebootDemocracy.ai.
Today, she leads the GovLab’s InnovateUS initiative, which trains public sector professionals in AI, digital and innovation skills. She is leading upcoming workshop series on Public AI and working to create a new course on AI and public engagement.
Previously, Beth served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer under President Obama. She founded the White House Open Government Initiative, which created policies and platforms, such as data.gov and challenge.gov, for making the federal government more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. Beth’s complete biography can be viewed here.
Taylor Stockton
Chief Innovation Officer U.S. Department of Labor
Taylor Stockton is the Chief Innovation Officer of the U.S. Department of Labor. In his role, Stockton leads the DOL’s exploration of how AI and emerging technologies impact the labor market and the overall experience of the American worker, as well as what new innovations can support workers in achieving the American Dream. Stockton was formerly the Co-Founder of future of work venture capital firm Pathway Ventures and the Chief Operating Officer of an AI-powered workforce development company, and he received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ashley Woolsey-Greene
Social Studies Coordinator, Office of Standards New Jersey Department of Education
Ashley Woolsey-Greene is the Social Studies Coordinator in the Office of Standards at the New Jersey Department of Education, where she promotes standards-based instruction, develops curriculum guidelines, and delivers professional development to support implementation of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Social Studies and related legislative mandates. She also is the co-designer of the Department’s information literacy framework.
Before joining the Department, Ashley spent 13 years as a secondary social studies and special education teacher, bringing U.S. history, world history, civics, and financial literacy to life for students across New Jersey.
In her five years at the Department, Ashley has championed efforts to strengthen information literacy and equip learners with the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate sources, engage with media, and participate meaningfully in a democratic society. She collaborates with government agencies, commissions, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, and curriculum consortiums to advance exemplary social studies education across New Jersey.
A lifelong New Jersey native with a passion for global perspectives, Ashley holds a Bachelor’s degree from Ramapo College and a Master of Arts in International Educational Development, with a concentration in Policy Implementation and Planning, from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is driven by a deep commitment to her work and looks forward to seeing its impact firsthand as her own young children prepare to enter New Jersey’s public schools.
Tara Zimmerman
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Studies Texas Woman’s University
Tara Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor at Texas Woman’s University’s School of Library and Information Studies. In 2023 she was awarded the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Early Career Development research grant. She developed a K-5 scaffolded curriculum to teach children about the dangers of misinformation as well as practical critical thinking skills to support information literacy.
In addition to her focus on information literacy, Dr. Zimmerman is continuing to develop her Social Noise framework in the context of misinformation as well.
Dr. Zimmerman received a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of North Texas, and a M.L.S. from the University of Oklahoma.
