Biography

A sociologist by training, I have spent the bulk of my career working across professions to ensure that the dramatic changes in information services are used to advance teaching, learning, and research, and the effective operation of higher education institutions. I bring over thirty five years experience leading multi-disciplinary, multi-professional, and multi-campus collaborations. I am proud to lead LITS’ expert, passionate, and motivated information services team to advance Mount Holyoke’s mission as the leading gender diverse women's college.

As a blended technology and library organization, LITS is a bridge, connector, and enabler of teaching, learning, scholarship, and the administrative work of the College. LITS’ virtual and physical spaces bring the global Mount Holyoke community together across disciplines, identities, roles on campus, and across professions to collaborate deeply and richly. We continually strive to improve the accessibility and inclusiveness of our physical and virtual spaces to better connect the Mount Holyoke community to the past and to the future, and to global scholarly conversations across disciplines, and across mediums. LITS serves as an enabler and connector of data, tools, and business processes across the administrative functions, ensuring that each part of the College appropriately benefits from and taps each other’s work to advance our shared mission.

Currently we are making substantial progress on “Summit”, a project to implement the student centered vision for services and processes articulated by the community in the spring of 2021. Summit has involved reworking our IT and Data governance processes to help us work more effectively across departments to achieve this vision, foundational to which is implementing Workday as our core system of record, and rethinking the rest of our application and data environment to sustain the student centered vision as we prepare the College to for its third century. 

Away from Mount Holyoke I find my center with my spouse, my daughter, and two grandchildren, and by running very long distances often in the woods.

Having graduated from the Honors College of Western Michigan University, I earned my Ph.D. in sociology at Boston College. While at BC I also worked in the Office of Information Technology. I taught sociology at Framingham State University, Drake University and Grinnell College. I helped to create the Midwest Instructional Technology Center (MITC), and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), both of which were funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. I was a Frye Institute Fellow in 2004, attended the ACRL/Harvard leadership institute for Academic Librarians in 2009, and the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute in 2015. I joined Mount Holyoke College in 2009 as Director of Research and Instructional Support. Since 2013 I have served first as interim, then, beginning in January 2015 as continuing CIO and Executive Director of Library, Information, and Technology Services.