I teach business analytics and information systems at Governors State University, where I also coordinate the MS in Business Analytics program and serve as faculty advisor for the Jaguars Anime & Gaming Club. I have taught graduate and undergraduate students for over a decade, in classrooms and online, in programming languages and databases and data visualization and the strange, human art of making decisions with incomplete information.

I play video games the way I do most things: too seriously, not seriously enough, and thoroughly.

My research asks what it takes for a person to move from not-knowing to knowing—not just acquiring information, but genuinely changing. I study this through behavioral data and the belief that being uncertain is a strength.

I hold a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Illinois Wesleyan University. I have received a best paper award at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, published in Computers in Human Behavior, and co-invented a U.S. patent. I serve on the Faculty Senate and the University Curriculum Committee at Governors State University.

I did not set out to become someone who synthesizes things. I just kept following the same question through every room I entered.

I am still following it.