Justin Lipp has been the Director of the  Center for Teaching and Educational Technology at Sonoma State University since 2016. As such, he has been working in academic technology and faculty development in California higher education for over a decade. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara where he specialized in the study of computer-mediated communication. He has a specialty in the assessment of higher education and is presently leading several pilots integrating faculty development, academic technology, and assessment to study the effects of these interventions.