Brenda Dervin
 Brenda Dervin currently a professor of communication at Ohio State University is a researcher in the communication and library and information science fields. Her research about information seeking and information use led to the development of the Sense-Making approach (Ross Nilsen & Dewdney 2003 p. 93). Dervin received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and home economics from Cornell University with a minor in philosophy of religion and her M.S.