Dr. Andrea Thomer is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona College of Information Science, where she studies and develops 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.