Carol Boston is the community relations manager for the CReED Lab and also supports other INFO faculty and students seeking to build deep and mutually beneficial research and education collaborations with community partners. A particular research interest is in helping faculty and students identify and reflect on the continuum of relationships possible with community partners and develop preferences and practices for sustained, community-driven ones in which technology and information are used to bring about more just and equitable conditions. She earned an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from the University of Maryland and an M.A.T. (Master of Arts in Teaching) in secondary English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In her free time, she gardens, writes poetry, and hikes.