Dr. Andrea Thomer is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona School of Information, where she works to both critically examine and actively develop knowledge infrastructures. Her research has been funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Science Foundation, and published in JASIST, CSCW, Slate, and more. Dr. Thomer earned her doctorate at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in 2017. She has worked with natural science collections communities for almost 20 years.