Rickman, Aimee

Aimee Rickman is a Ph.D. student in Human Development and Family Studies
and holds a M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois. She
also holds a B.A. in Communications from Marquette University. She previously
won first prize in the Informatics 490 design competition: "Outstanding Design
of a Playful Technology." She is a fellow with the Center on Democracy in a
Multiracial Society, and has received Judy Barr Topinka's Women to Women:
Making a Difference in Illinois Trailblazer Award. Her research investigates how
participation in new technosocial environments informs and shapes adolescent
development.