Lynette Yarger

Professor
Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion, Schreyer Honors College

E381 Westgate Building
288 Burrowes Road
University Park, PA 16802

Email lmk12@psu.edu
Phone 814-865-6458
Pronouns she, her, hers

Areas of Expertise

Social Informatics
Future of Work
Critical Theory
Feminist Theory
Digital Inequality

Education

Ph.D., Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University
M.S., Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University
B.S., Computer Information Systems, Mercy University

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Lynette Yarger

Dr. Lynette (Kvasny) Yarger is associate dean for equity and inclusion at the Schreyer Honors College and professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. In the 2018-2019 academic year, she worked as an administrative fellow in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO. She earned the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the College of IST George J. McMurtry Teaching and Learning Award, and the Penn State Teaching Fellow Award. Before joining the faculty at IST, she worked as a software engineer at AT&T, was a member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies, and was a product lifecycle manager at Avaya Communications.

Dr. Yarger's research uses critical social theories to examine how historically underserved groups appropriate information and communication technologies to improve their life chances. Areas of study include community computing initiatives in economically oppressed communities, the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the IT workforce, ethnic and gender identity performance in online spaces, and the use of social media for political activism and social justice. Her research activities have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Oracle Help Us Help Foundation, the Penn State Africana Research Center, and the Penn State Children, Youth and Family Consortium. The results of her interdisciplinary research have been published in more than seventy-five peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings, including the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Information Systems Journal, Communication Research, and the Journal of the Medical Informatics Association.

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