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Student Staff
Susan Rodgers is currently working for the Community Informatics Initiative as a Research Assistant. She received a B.A. in English and Rhetoric from the University of Illinois in the spring of 2007. Susan volunteers actively in the Champaign-Urbana community and served the public through her previous position as a circulation clerk at the Urbana Free Library.
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Susan Rodgers
Melissa Martinez is a first year graduate student in the LEEP program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, concentrating in data curation and special collections. Melissa is interested in fusing community informatics into these two areas of study. She likes the idea of combining community service and outreach with archival/special collections practices in particular. She graduated from Indiana University Fort Wayne in 2008 with a BA in History and a minor in Political Science. She spent her brief break between undergraduate and graduate studies traveling and exploring Puerto Rico with her fiancé, now husband.
martin93@illinois.edu
Fellows
Navadeep Khanal joined the Master’s program in GSLIS in 2003 after earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Hanover College, IN. A student from Nepal, he is currently working on his PhD coursework in GSLIS in the area of Information Policy with a focus on rural and remote areas. He is funded by the IMLS grant, Community Informatics Corps.
Amita Lonial is a first year LEEP student at GSLIS. Prior to coming to GSLIS she has spent the last 6 years working for grassroots organizations around the country on issues ranging from environmental justice to welfare reform. She is excited about the Community Informatics Initiative and the role technology can play in creating systemic change and promoting social justice.
Kristin Palmer is a first year GSLIS student and IMLS Fellow. She received her B.A. in Spanish from the University of Illinois in the Spring of 2008. Kristin became interested in Community Informatics after being exposed to it during her undergraduate summer research as a McNair Scholar.
Natalie Marin-Sharp is a first year graduate student at GSLIS via LEEP and resides in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in American Indian Studies at UCLA. She has experience working with the Los Angeles Public Library's Adult Literacy Program as a volunteer tutor.
Brent Walton is an IMLS fellow. While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Brent took a course in community informatics and thus decided to pursue CI in graduate school.