Theresa Schwerin is Vice President of Education at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), a non-profit organization with the mission to promote understanding of our Earth through science, observations, and education. She leads IGES’s education initiatives including the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative – a partnership between IGES and Earth sciences at three NASA Centers: Goddard, Langley, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory – which is engaging learners in STEM experiences, particularly through GLOBE Observer citizen science. Ms. Schwerin earned her Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and worked in public libraries in Charleston, South Carolina.