My name is Claire Coffman and I am a third year Media and Screen Studies student at Northeastern university with minors in Spanish and Computational Social Sciences. I’m primarily interested in the way media as a form of art and entertainment contributes to global, social understandings of connectedness. I am also interested in the ways that human attributes like leadership, language, and personality come across in online communities, and how that impacts interpersonal relationships. At CoMM Lab, I work as a research assistant on the igraph project, which explores diversity and accessibility in open source projects and communities. Outside of my work and studies, I sing in a choir, and I enjoy watching movies, baking, and spending time in nature.