James Pick is a professor of business at the University of Redlands. He is the founding director of the university’s Center for Spatial Business, the current and founding chair of the School of Business and Society faculty assembly, and the past chair of the Department of Management and Business. He is the author or co-author of over 170 journal articles, book chapters, and peer-reviewed papers in MIS, GIS, and population and urban studies, the author or co-author of 14 books, including Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach (Pearson, 2012), The Global Digital Divides (Springer, 2015), and Spatial Business (Esri Press, 2022). He is the senior editor of Information Technology for Development. He is the recipient of a senior Fulbright Scholar award for Mexico, an outstanding alumni award from Northern Illinois University, and eight honors awards for research, teaching, and service from the University of Redlands. He has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator of research grants from, among others, the University of California, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Esri Inc. He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, an M.S.Ed. from Northern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine.