Kristin McCombs is a 2005 graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University (BA in psychology and history), a 2007 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (MA in educational psychology research methodology) and a current PhD student at Kent State University (educational psychology). After teaching at several community colleges, Kristin returned to Wheeling Jesuit in 2008 to teach and is active in research in the psychology department and work at the Center for Educational Technologies^®. To balance out her otherwise academic-heavy existence, she spends her spare time teaching dance to youths several evenings a week.