Sheryl Day

Sheryl Day, Ph.D., is a graduate of the University of Washington Information School. She was a native Chamoru researcher in the iSchool Indigenous Information Research Group (IIRG), and she is interested in information policy issues. Sheryl developed and taught both the masters- and undergraduate-level curricula for the iSchool Tahiti Study Abroad Program on Oral Traditions, Knowledge, & Science. She also developed and taught a one-month intensive Project Management & Development curriculum for the TASCHA Information Strategies for Societies in Transition (ISST) program that brought together an unprecedented diversity of 25 fellows from Myanmar within government ministries, NGOs, CSOs, media, libraries, and activist groups. As a TASCHA Research Assistant, Sheryl helped to develop the Myanmar Information Lab and a digital information literacy curriculum for deployment in Myanmar.