Jean Armour Polly
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Jean Armour Polly is a librarian by profession, the author of a series of books on safe Internet services (Surfing the Internet), and has been an active Internet user since 1991.
She received her BA in Medieval Studies at Syracuse University in 1974, and her Master’s in Library Science from the same university in 1975.
She's widely credited with coining the phrase "Surfing the Internet", and was certainly the author of the first known appearance of the phrase in print, in an article with that name in the Wilson Library Bulletin in June, 1992.
She was Director of Public Services and Internet Ambassador at NYSERNet, Inc (1992-1995).
She has served on the Internet Society Board of Trustees (1993-1996) and on the ICANN At-Large Advisory Council (ALAC) (2004-), as well as on the board of ICRA.
She lives in New York, where she runs the "Net-mom" Internet site.
References
[Her own biography at her website]
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