Professor in the Department of Arts and Media, School of Arts and Humanities at Empire State University. Program Coordinator for the BA and BS in Digital Media Arts and Area Coordinator for Online Courses in Arts and Media. Recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities (2022). Dr. Susan H. Turben Chair in Mentoring (2021-2022). Extraordinary Professor, Research Unit Self-Directed Learning, Faculty of Education, North-West University, South Africa. Co-authored the award-winning book Metaliteracy in a Connected World: Developing Learners as Producers (2022) with Trudi Jacobson for ALA/Neal-Schuman. This newest metaliteracy book is the recipient of the 2024 Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research. Co-wrote the first book about metaliteracy with Prof. Jacobson, a model that we originated, entitled Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners (2014). Co-editor of the books Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World (2019) and Metaliteracy in Practice (2016). Developed two Coursera MOOCs Empowering Yourself in a Connected World and Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World. Serve on the Board of Directors for the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society in the Capital Region of New York as Chair and member of the Executive Committee, and previously as Vice Chair, and Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee.