March 6, 2013

Kate Starbird chooses a different route

Jayda Evans (Seattle Times) has written about the paths chosen by former women basketball players with Seattle connections.

Kate Starbird is:

... a first-year assistant professor in UW's Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering and director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation laboratory. In English, that means she teaches how social media is used in crisis situations and how to design better applications for digital volunteers.

The only basketball souvenirs in her office are dreamy Mediterranean photos from her time playing pro ball in Ibiza, at the end of her career ...

Click here for the article.

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