Board Member
Founder and Director
Pew’s Internet & American Life Project
Lee Rainie is the director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & Technology Research Group, which has studied the social impact of digital technologies since 2000. He gives several dozen speeches a year to government officials, media leaders, scholars and students, technology executives, librarians, and non-profit groups about the changing media ecosystem. He also regularly interviewed by major news organizations about technology trends.
Lee is a co-author of Networked: The New Social Operating System and five books about the future of the Internet that are drawn from Pew Internet research. Prior to launching the Pew Internet Project, he was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. He is a graduate of Harvard College and has a master’s degree in political science from Long Island University.
Senior Researcher in Information Design
Contributing Writer, PIL Provocation Series
Assistant Teaching Professor/Designer in Residence, Northeastern University, Art + Design
Contributing Editor, Provocation Series (2021 – present)
PIL Scholar-in-Residence
Professor Emerita, Gustavus Adolphus College
Senior Researcher
Associate Editor, Provocation Series
Professor Emerita, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta
Research Analyst
Contributing staff, PIL Provocation Series
First-Year Experience Librarian, The University of Washington Tacoma
Research Analyst
Contributing writer, PIL Provocation Series
Instruction and Outreach Faculty, Central Oregon Community College
Senior Fellow in Information Literacy
Contributing staff, PIL Provocation Series
Associate Professor, Digital Scholarship Liaison, Instruction Librarian,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign