People

Craig M. MacDonald is a professor in the School of Information at Pratt Institute, where he founded and currently serves as the teaching/curriculum lead of the Master of Science in Information Experience Design program. He has expertise in usability evaluation, user research, and UX design and has led hundreds of students through course-based and extracurricular UX consulting projects on behalf of libraries, cultural heritage institutions, start-ups, and media companies. He is the co-founder of the EduCHI symposium on HCI Education and holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies and Human-Computer Interaction from Drexel University

Sam Raddatz is an information architecture, user experience, and career pivot specialist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked on projects or in positions with companies such as the Brooklyn Museum, City University of New York Academic Commons, Equality Indicators, Netflix, NYU Libraries, and the Trust for Public Lands. She is the founder and CEO of Logic Department and holds a MS from Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science and a BA from Western Washington University.