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Lauren Reinhalter is a Lecturer at the San José State University School of Information, where she teaches INFO 221 – Government Information Sources. She is also the Deputy Director of Research and Knowledge Management at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a nonprofit think tank in New York City, a position she has held since 2016. Her career bridges academic instruction and professional librarianship with a focus on public access to government information and knowledge management.
- M.L.I.S., Pratt Institute (2014)
- B.A. in Political Science & Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2007)
Her teaching and professional interests center on government information, information policy, intellectual freedom, knowledge management, and information literacy. She has extensive experience in special and academic libraries, having previously served as Government Documents Librarian at Voxgov and Public Services Librarian at Pratt Institute. Her work consistently emphasizes transparency, open access, and equitable information dissemination.
The sole article in her publication record, from 2014, explores the impact of big data on libraries, reflecting early engagement with data trends in information science. While limited in quantity, her scholarly output aligns with her professional focus on evolving information ecosystems.
Lauren has not received any publicly listed scientific awards or fellowships based on the available information.
She advises on curriculum and professional development through her teaching role but no formal advisees or students are listed. She has not been associated with any grants or funded research projects in the provided text. Her leadership at CFR involves overseeing reference services, instruction, and outreach, indicating a strong administrative and educational component to her current role.
She is not explicitly affiliated with any research lab or formal academic team, but her position at CFR places her within a high-level research and policy environment where knowledge management and information access are central to institutional mission.
