For the past five years, she has led interdisciplinary teams of researchers and children to develop and evaluate new technologies for children's information access and use. Over the last two years, she has been the project leader of the International Children's Digital Library. Most recently she was nominated by President Geroge W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become a Commissioner in the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. She received her M.S. from the MIT Media Lab in 1987, and her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico's College of Education in 1997.