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Leslie Shade is finishing her PhD this year at McGill
University's Graduate Program in Communications. Her dissertation, to be
defended in April, is titled "Gender and Community in the Social Constitution
of the Internet." Her consulting work concentrates on the social, policy and
design issues surrounding new technologies. Clients have included the
Government of Ontario (E-Connections, a feasibility study on the use of e-mail
in non-profit organizations in Ontario); Status of Women Canada (report on the
use of the Internet in women's organizations across Canada); Network Services
Development Group of Industry Canada (a technical evaluation of SchoolNet); and
Industry Canada/Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, with the
Universal Access projects (see
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/ua).
She has also written widely on the social and policy issues in a variety of
publications. She has an M.L.S. from UCLA and a B.A. in Communications/Visual
Arts from UCSD. Previous work experience includes free-lance researching
through Shade Investigations, law and advertising agency librarian, and
administrative work at the Office for Civil Rights of the Dept. of Education in
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