Who We Are

Carola Carlier is a project manager and software developer of dynamic web sites and databases. After a few years of software engineering at MEDSTAT and ProQuest, she joined a research group at The University of Michigan. The Center for Health Communications Research creates online studies with tailored web applications and back-end databases.

Before Carola knew about software and its magic, she was a social worker and English teacher. She is proud to be a tech person who on most days can communicate and enjoys working with people.

Wendi Fornoff is a web developer with a particular interest in making the web user-friendly and accessible. She has work experience as a web accessibility consultant for ProQuest, Yankee Ingenuity, and Thomson Gale, and as a web designer and administrator for the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

Before entering the technological sphere, Wendi provided psychotherapy to people diagnosed with severe mental illness. Many of these clients were on heavy medications that made fine motor skills, such as those required to handle a computer mouse, difficult. It was then that Wendi first became interested in usable, accessible web design.

Naghma Husain earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan in creative writing and women's studies and an M.A. from York University in dance studies. She does editing and graphic design work for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. She also volunteers as technology coordinator and designer for birthNETWORK, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.