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Noreen Whysel is a former IAC chair and longtime volunteer. She is a Brooklyn based researcher and information architect. She is COO of Decision Fish LLC and an Adjunct Lecturer at CUNY New York City College of Technology’s BFA program. She has facilitated workshops on mentoring, accessibility, search behavior and technology standards.

Her recent research includes the effect of climate change on healthcare access by vulnerable populations, accessible science gateways and digital privacy and safety. She also is a research consultant at Internet Safety Labs (ISL) where she is leads the dark patterns risk research team and consults on safe software specifications.

She serves on several standards working groups focusing on usability and accessibility at ISL, W3C, UXPA and Kantara Institute. She is co-founder of the Information Architecture Gateway, providing IA and SEO services to the science gateways community.