Jaime Snyder is a doctoral candidate at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. Her research focuses on the creation of visual information during multimodal communication. She is currently working on a dissertation study addressing the concept of image-enabled discourse, with an emphasis on drawing as an information-driven communication practice. This work draws on theories from linguistic anthropology and discourse studies in order to expand the ways that images and image-making are studied in information science.

Within the school, she is serves as Liaison for Interdiscplinary Curriculum Development, focusing on a year long initiative entitled Common Ground and devoted to exploring synergies between the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). Previous to this appointment, she served for two years as a research assistant in the iSchool's Center for Digital Literacy (CDL).

Prior to entering the doctoral program, Snyder worked as a practicing artist, teacher and web consultant. She held positions in the web development industry as an interactive producer, information architect, and content strategist. Through these experiences she has developed strong interests in multidisciplinary collaborations, visual communication and user-centered approaches to the organization of information across academic, creative and industry contexts.