lmilne@macalester.edu
OLRI 225
Department of MSCS
1600 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105
I'm an assistant professor of Computer Science at Macalester College in the department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. I received my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering in June 2018 from the University of Washington, where I was an NSF graduate research fellow who worked with Richard Ladner. My dissertation topic was on exploring touchscreen accessibility for children who are blind or have low vision. I graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College in 2008 with a B.A. in Physics, and spent three years working as a personal care assistant to a young man with a disability and one year working as a "Mad Scientist", doing outreach events to get elementary school children excited about science.
I am interested broadly in making STEM education and computer science more accessible for underrepresented groups and am an AccessComputing partner and a member of CSForALL. My research has focused on designing accessible programming tools such as Blocks4All and StructJumper, and I have participated in a number of outreach events, including teaching the Processing to Deaf and hard-of-hearing high schoolers at the Saturday Computing Experience and volunteering at the Empowering Blind Students in Science and Engineering workshop.
Outside of school, I enjoy hiking, biking, skijoring (cross country skiing with dogs), triathlons and roller derby.