Orit Shaer is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Wellesley College. She directs the Wellesley College HCI Lab. Her research focuses on novel human-computer interaction for the future of work and learning, including tangible and embodied interaction, and mixed-reality interfaces. Dr Shaer received her PhD in Computer Science from Tufts. She is a senior Member of ACM, and a recipient of several NSF and industry awards. She is a founder of the CHIWork symposium and is a steering committee member of the ACM conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI). Shaer's book "Weaving Fire into Form: Aspirations for Tangible and Embodied Interaction" (ACM Books, 2022) is the first comprehensive reference book on this emerging field. It provides wide-ranging conceptual and pragmatic tools toward weaving the animating fires of computation and technology into evocative tangible forms. Her website is: https://cs.wellesley.edu/~oshaer/index.html