Erezi Ogbo-Gebhardt, PhD is an assistant professor and director of Extended Studies and Online Learning at North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Science. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of the digital divides, user acceptance of technology, and technology’s impact among marginalized populations. 

She is leading the user experience research of North Carolina’s digital resource finder tool to help bridge the digital divide and developing models to assess the impact of local and national digital inclusion initiatives. For her research, Ogbo-Gebhardt won the Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy’s (TPRC) Charles Benton Early Career Scholar Award in 2022. That same year, she also received the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s Young Scholar Award and the Majorie & Charles Benton Opportunity Fund Fellowship. Her research has also been funded by the NIH, NTIA, and NCDIT.

Ogbo-Gebhardt earned her PhD in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and won the Robert Dunlap Award for the best paper in the Part B qualifying exam. She also holds degrees from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and Bells University of Technology, Nigeria.