Rachel M. Magee is a youth advocate and assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work in the School of Information Sciences is informed by her background as a librarian, and focuses on youth, the ways they interact with technology in everyday life, and resulting implications for their engagement with information. Much of this work is conducted collaboratively with teens as co-researchers. Magee has a PhD in Information Studies from Drexel University, a masters in information resources and library science from the University of Arizona, and a BS in Radio-Television-Film and a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin.
