Raikes School of Computer Science and Management and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is also the founding president of Wired Youth, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that works to educate the community about safe social networking for children as an active prevention strategy for cyberbullying, online predation, and other cyberthreats. She also recently developed KidGab, a social network for Girl Scouts. Valentine was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, recipient of the Susan M. Arseven ’75 Make-A-Difference Award, and recipient of the Mentoring Excellence Award, and completed her BA in Computer Science with a minor in Electronic Publishing from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota in 2011 and PhD in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2016.