Chris Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque) is the Vice President and Director of Human Resources & IT for AvaCon, Inc, and also serves as the Track Leader for the Development & Open Source track. Professionally, Chris is an IT Analyst in the UCit Instructional & Research Computing department at the University of Cincinnati, where she currently manages the campus-wide podcasting and Second Life projects, and serves as the Second Life Ambassador for the Ohio Learning Network, a consortium of 80 colleges and universities in Ohio. In her free time, she is the founder and Executive Director of the Chilbo Community, where she resides in the Chilbo sim in Second Life. Fleep’s research centers around the use of technology, education, and the metaverse, and she blogs informally on these topics at fleeptuque.com.