About Me — Olivia Love
(Yes, it’s a pen name and my alter ego as a healing practitioner.) As a healing practitioner, I center my work on holistic health and earth medicine coaching and advocacy. I write. I am a mom. I am a reformed reckless party-girl who is grateful to have come out of my 20’s alive.
I am also a drop out of a Ph.D. program in education. I was studying information literacy from the perspective of an educator, a research focus that had grown out of my experience as an adjunct instructor and test prep tutor who had seen first-hand the decline of students’ research skills over the years. I’d conducted surveys on both disciplinary faculty and librarians to gain information on their perceptions of the state of information literacy instruction in higher education and to the extent that it met students’ needs. While I’d completed the data collection phase, I questioned the meaningfulness of the data collected and my research design. Even if I would’ve been able to swing the data analysis and try to make meaning from the data, I knew this work really was meant to prove myself as a budding researcher. But I wasn’t passionate about research, and I knew the challenges of entering academia, a profession increasingly notorious for its competitive and exploitative nature.
While I believe our world is in an information crisis and that information literacy and critical thinking need to be taught much…
