Jenny Preece is an American academic who is the Dean Emerita (2005–2015) of the College of Information Studies, a Professor at the University of Maryland, and a member of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab.

She went on to be a Research Professor of Information Systems and founding Director of the Research Center for People and Systems Interaction at London South Bank University in London.

At the University of Maryland, she has studied how online communities can stimulate and support social engagement.

[3] Her current work is on citizen science and environmental education.

[citation needed] Her work is described in Encounters with HCI Pioneers: A Personal History and Photo Journal.