Author: Beth St. Jean

Beth St. Jean is associate professor in the College of Information Studies, associate director of the Information Policy and Access Center (i PAC), and an affiliate faculty member of the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a Ph D in information and a Master’s degree in information (library & information services specialization) from the University of Michigan School of Information. Ursula Gorham is senior lecturer in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (the i School). She currently serves as the director of the Master of Library and Information Science Program in the i School. She is admitted to practice law in Maryland and previously served as a law clerk in Maryland appellate and federal bankruptcy courts. Elizabeth (Beth) Bonsignore is an assistant research scientist at the College of Information Studies (the i School) and the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). As the director of Kids Team, an intergenerational, participatory design team at Maryland’s i School, her research efforts involve codesign partnerships and meaningful play with youth. She has also served as an associate chair for the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), CHI-PLAY, and Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conferences since 2016.