Jennifer Scott Brown
Old Dominion University

Jennifer Scott Brown currently resides in Norfolk, VA and is a Youth and Family Services Manager for Suffolk Public Library. She received her BA in History and BS in Interdisciplinary Studies from Old Dominion University in 2008, her Masters in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University in 2010, and PhD in Instructional Design and Technology in 2017 from Old Dominion University. Jennifer's research interests include informal learning environments, cognitive apprenticeships, and professional development for programming librarians and paraprofessionals in public libraries. Jennifer's career aspirations are to gain a faculty position in a Library Science program and to incorporate more instructional design in core library school curriculum and using instructional design strategies for needs assessments and informal learning specifically for public library programming and environments.