Kristen Eddy is Manager of Collaboration Technologies for the Science, Environment and Development (SED) Group, as well as Manager of Web Communications and Publications for the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. Her work with the SED Group looks at the ways in which virtual conferencing technologies can facilitate and catalyze collaboration among members of a highly distributed research team. This involves synchronous technologies such as videoconferencing, web conferencing, and audio conferencing, and asynchronous technologies such as web sites (both static and database-driven), discussion forums, and listservs. She is also Project Manager for an interactive video project funded by Harvard's Provost Fund for Innovation in Instructional Technology; a 3-way collaboration among Harvard, the Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER) at Chiang Mai University, and a small agricultural community in Northern Thailand, the project is an experiment with video technology with two motivating goals: (1) to extend Harvard's case method teaching by bringing the perspectives of actual developing country policy practitioners into the classroom in an interactive (though asynchronous) dialogue with students, and also (2) to explore the potential for video technology to aid in the conduct of sustainable development research and particularly as a means to overcome cultural and literacy barriers in effectively communicating the results of that research back to the communities in need of development assistance. Some of the other SED projects on which she works include the Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD) Project, the Sustainability Science Project, and the Global Environmental Assessment (GEA) Project. Through her work with the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS), in 2001 she helped to create the Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability, serving both as Webmaster and Managing Editor (as of 2002) until the Forum was migrated to AAAS in 2006.

Previously Kristen was Manager of Electronic Media Services for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining BCSIA, she worked with Harvard's Environmental Information Center and the University Committee on Environment (UCE) on several of the school's online environmental resources, such as a Sustainable Development Indicators Databank, an International Environmental Policy Reference Guide, and the 1998-1999 electronic versions of the UCE's Environment at Harvard: Student Guide and Course List and the searchable/browseable database of Courses with Environmental Components. She has a B.A. from Harvard in Environmental Science and Public Policy.