About Tammy
Tamara Clegg is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where she is the director of the InfoDesign B.A. program. She also co-directs the Youth eXperience (YX) Lab and has an affiliate position in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership within the College of Education. She received her Ph.d. from Georgia Tech’s College of Computing and her B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. From her early years growing up in North Carolina and getting an early introduction to programming in summer camps at Bennett College, Tammy’s passion for the community has extended into her research and teaching at UMD.
Tamara’s work focuses on designing technology (e.g., social media, mobile apps, e-textiles, community displays) to support life-relevant STEM learning where learners, particularly those from minoritized, resource-constrained communities, engage in SEM in the context of achieving personally relevant goals. She seeks to understand ways such learning environments and technologies support STEM disposition development and critical data literacies. Tamara’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Studies, the Spencer Foundation, Nickelodeon and Google.
