Leanne Bowler is a Professor at the School of Information, Pratt Institute, in New York City. She has a Master of Library and Information Science, a Master of Educational Psychology, and a PhD. Her research and teaching focuses on young peoples' interactions with information and data, their technology practices, STEM learning, and how family, teachers, and out-of-school organizations such as libraries and museums can support young people's competencies in a socio-technical world.
Co-Principal Investigator:
Mark Rosin, Associate Professor, Department of Math & Science, Pratt Institute Executive Director, Guerilla Science
Mark Rosin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Math & Science at Pratt Institute in New York City and Executive Director at Guerilla Science, an international science and society organization. His work focuses on applied mathematics, computer algorithms, the connections between science, art, and culture, and their realizations in the public places and spaces that science is least expected. He is the winner of the Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Ashoka Foundation Emerging Innovator. His work with Guerilla Science has been featured in The New Yorker, TheNew York Times, and VICE.
Co-Principal Investigator:
Irene Lopatovska, Professor, School of Information, Pratt Institute
Irene Lopatovska is a Professor at the School of Information, Pratt Institute, in New York City. Her research interests include human information interaction and affective computing. Her current research examines interactions with conversational agents like Amazon's Alexa. Dr. Lopatovska is experienced in conducting user studies in various settings and with different populations, including a collaboration with the Brooklyn Public Library to examine children's literacy skills.
Advisors
KellyRottmund.Teen Services Coordinator,Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Roderick Schrock. Executive Director ofEyebeam, a platform for artists to engage society's relationship with technology.
Elisabeth Soep. Special Projects Producer and Innovation Lab Founder at YR Media (formerly Youth Radio), an Oakland-based national network for next-generation news and arts. Senior Editor, Audio at Vox Media Podcast Network and Senior Civic Media Fellow at USC's AnnLab.
Laura Vroom, MSLIS. Laura Vroom is a graduate of Pratt Institute's School of Information, in New York City. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science with a concentration in archives.
Research Assistants
Melissa Bowden, MSLIS Student, School of Information, Pratt Institute
2022
Jiacheng Chen, MSDAV Student, School of Information, Pratt Institute
2022-2023
Dana Dela Cruz, MSLIS Student, School of Information, Pratt Institute
2022
Laura Vroom, MSLIS Student, School of Information, Pratt Institute
2021
Karen You-Chuan Wang, MSLIS Student, School of Information, Pratt Institute
2020-2021
Wenge Wang, MSDAV Student, School of Information, Pratt Institute
2023
Ziqi Wang, MSDAV Student, School of Information, Pratt Institute