She studies scholarly communication and social media through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion. She is developing Linked Data (ontologies, metadata, Semantic Web) approaches to manage scientific evidence. Jodi holds degrees in informatics (Ph.D., National University of Ireland, Galway), library & information science (M.S. UIUC), mathematics (M.A. UT-Austin), and liberal arts (B.A., Great Books, St. John's College). She has worked as an actuarial analyst for a Fortune 500 insuance company, as the gift buyer for a small independent bookstore, and in college and university libraries. As part of her Marie Curie grant, Jodi worked on semantic web for information management, at the WIMMICS lab Inria Sophia Antipolis, France. She has also held research positions across the U.S. as well as in Ireland, England, France and Chile.