In my leadership roles, as Director of the Rob Kling Center, I enjoy supporting interdisciplinary teams and sustaining Rob Kling’s legacy for Social Informatics. I am passionate about fostering collaborative spaces where both students and faculty can thrive. I also had the privilege of serving as Chair of the Information & Library Science Department from 2022 to 2025. 

Professional Service

Editorial Assignments

• 2016 – present, Editorial Board Member, Information, Communication & Society
• 2017, Special Issue Guest Editor, Science Communication, Public Science in a Wired World: How Online Media are Changing Science Communication

Organizing Activities

• Co-organizer, open panel on Science Communication: Making Science in Public, Society for Social Studies of Science
  • 2026; Toronto, Canada
  • 2025; Seattle, WA
  • 2024; Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2022; Cholula, Mexico
  • 2021; Toronto, Canada
  • 2020; Prague, Czech Republic [Virtual]
  • 2019; New Orleans, LA [Virtual]
• 2026, Hara, N. (organizer), Pasquetto, I., Sbaffi, L., Yu, B., & Zhang, C. (2026, March). iSchool Community for Science of Science: Scholarly Communication, Communicating Science, and Public Participation in Science. iConference, Edinburgh, UK
• 2025, Hara, N. (organizer), Pasquetto, I., Sun, M., Teplitskiy, M., Yu, B., & Zhang, C. (2025, March). iSchool Community for Science of Science: Scholarly Communication, Communicating Science, and Public Participation in Science. iConference, Bloomington, IN.
• 2024, Hara, N. & Fichman, P. (co-organizers). (2024, April). Panel: Social Informatics Perspectives on Emerging
• Technologies: The Way Forward. Association for Information Science & Technology. London, UK. 
• 2025, Conference Coordinator, iConference 2025, Bloomington, IN
• 2022, Co-organizer, open panel on Science Communication, European Association for the Studies of Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain