People

**Kendra Albright:**  Dr. Kendra Albright currently serves as an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. She has served as a consultant for both the government and private industry. She holds a Ph.D. in Communications, a M.S. in Library Science, and a B.S. in Human Development. Drawing from information science, communications, psychology, public health and education, she is interested in understanding the ways in which information has contributed to behavior change, particularly in the areas of HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. [|Website]

**Kay Cassell:** Dr. Kay Cassell is a lecturer in the department and directs the Master of Library and Information Science program at the School of Communication and Information. She received her BA from Carnegie Mellon, MLS from Rutgers, MA from Brooklyn College and Ph.D. from International University. She has maintained longtime women's studies involvement, including the establishments of the first Women in Librarianship Preconference, the Feminist Task Force and the Committee on the Status of Women, as well as her service on the board of directors of the Feminist Press. [|Website]

**Lesley Farmer:** Dr. Lesley Farmer, Professor at California State University Long Beach, coordinates the Librarianship program. Dr. Farmer has worked as a library media teacher in K-12 school settings as well as in public, special and academic libraries. She serves as International Association for School Librarianship VP Association Relations, edits the IFLA School Libraries and Resource Centers Section newsletter, chaired the Educators of Library Media Specialists Section of AASL, and chaired the Education Section of Special Libraries Association. Dr. Farmer is a frequent presenter and writer for the profession.

**Lisa Hussey:** Professor Hussey joined the GSLIS faculty at Simmons College in Fall 2008. She was formerly the director of library services at DeVry University in Arizona, and has taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Missouri, where she received her doctoral degree. She also served as program manager for the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science. Her research interests include diversity and management, leadership, and the role of theory versus practice in teaching library science. [|Website]

**Melissa Johnston:** Melissa Johnston currently works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science. [|Website]


 * Marianne Martens: ** Marianne Martens is currently a fifth year doctoral candidate at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in the School of Communication and Information. [|Website]

**Claire McInerney:** Claire McInerney currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Her research is focused on the study of strategic and effective integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in the work place to facilitate knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, and knowledge management. To this end, she also studies the social and cultural factors inherent in the use of ICTs as well as Gender and Technology. [|Website]


 * Bharat Mehra: **Dr. Mehra works as an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). His work has focused on community informatics or the use of information and communication technologies to enable and empower communities to meet their needs and goals. This has involved creating awareness of social justice and social equity in the information professions for representing the needs of minority, disenfranchised, and international populations. [|Website]

**Hope Olson:** Dr. Hope Olson a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Information Studies. Her research areas include: feminist, poststructural, postcolonial research on culture and subject representation (including traditional vocabularies and classification and social tagging) and classificatory and other subject structures. [|Website]

**Ellen Pozzi:** Ellen Pozzi works as a Part-Time Lecturer and Doctoral Student at Rutger's School of Library and Information Science. <span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Website]

<span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Sue Searing:** Dr. Searing currently works as Library and Information Science Librarian at the University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign. She has researched and contributed to the development of library collections and programs in support of feminist teaching and scholarship. Currently, she is researching and documenting the evolution of the reference literature as women's studies emerged and matured as a field of inquiry. <span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Website]

<span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Wendy Stephens:** Wendy Stephens is a current Ph.D. candidate in Information, College of Information, Library Science and Technologies at University of North Texas. She has worked as a high school librarian since 2003. Her research interests include student perspectives on libraries and school libraries. <span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Website]


 * <span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sharon Stoerger: **Sharon Stoerger is an instructional design consultant in the Learning Technology Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She teaches online and face-to-face courses related to instructional technologies and professional writing at UWM and Mount Mary College. She also teaches courses on gender and computerization, as well as instructional technologies. Her areas of interest include computer-mediated communication, educational uses of social media including virtual worlds, and pedagogical practices in digital environments. <span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Website]

<span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Arlene Taylor:** Arlene Taylor is a Professor Emerita at the School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh. Her research areas include cataloging and information organization. <span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Website]