Bridget is currently a Ph.D. Canidate at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. She has recently completed her third year of graduate classes and successfully defended her dissertation proposal in December of 2008. Her research involves the use of technology in virtual worlds and the social impacts of virtual worlds on offline life. Her disseration reserach focuses on how technology impacts social protest movements in a virtual worlds. She is currently engaged as a research assitant on the EVOSTA project studing the virtual community that surrounds the use of the Hi-Res CT scanner at Penn State.

Bridget has her undergraduate degree from the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Where she focused on the Design and Development of technology. She began her graduate career in the fall of 2005. Bridget is also the student president of the Graduate Student Government in IST (GIST). She was also a committee member of the 2007 Graduate Symposium at IST and has acted as an outside advisor for the 2008 and 2009 Symposiums. Outside of classes she enjoys reading about philosophy, science fiction, history and many other topics. She has remained an active and interested player of video games including many popular MMOs and collects as many console systems as is possible.