Chad Mairn is a Professor, Librarian, and founder of the Innovation Lab at St. Petersburg College. Chad is also a faculty member in the School of Information at SJSU. While an undergraduate studying Humanities at the University of South Florida (USF), Chad was awarded a Library of Congress Fellowship helping archive personal papers and other items in the Leonard Bernstein Collection. During his Library and Information Science graduate work, also at USF, Chad became a technology liaison between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Florida public libraries.