Mary Jane C. Parmentier, Clinical Associate Professor at Arizona State University, directs the M.S. in Global Technology and Development (GTD) program in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. The GTD program, which she co-designed in 2000, is an international development masters that highlights and examines the variable of technology, particularly emerging technologies, in the development process. As a faculty member, administrator, and program director, Mary Jane has developed many courses in international development and technology theory and policy, as well as in regional studies and research design. Her regions of expertise are North Africa and Latin America, and she is proficient in French, Spanish and Moroccan Arabic; she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco from 1986-1988. Mary Jane’s PhD is from the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, where she completed an emphasis in international development, and wrote her dissertation on religion and politics in North Africa. At ASU she has designed and led pre-departure trainings and study abroad programs to Morocco, Spain, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic; each of these programs engaged with local communities, while training students to conduct field research in a myriad of development contexts. Mary Jane has also, over the past 20 years, conducted research and published in journals and books on social media and collective action, digital participation and democratic change, the digital divide, international integration and information technology, and gender divides in engineering and technology. Her current activities include developing a multidisciplinary research training workshop for students and faculty at a university in Chile and adapting training materials for local NGOs in Bolivia on the social value of community energy projects.