She obtained her PhD in Information &Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her areas of research interest are health informatics, social informatics, human computer interaction, and user-centered interface design. She has studied about information behaviors of various populations, such as lay people, undergraduate students, librarians, and nurses, investigating their motivations and usages of social media in seeking and sharing information about health as well as other topics. The details about her projects in research can be found here (http://socialqa.cci.fsu.edu/). Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa