Abstract
The posthumous recipient of this year's EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in the Profession, Diane Balestri, was one of IT's most influential and articulate writers and thinkers. Her early work was grounded in emerging IT practices of the 1980s, but prophetic in offering solutions that influenced the directions many of us followed over the next decade. Her work in the late 1990s shows how her thinking developed over time and helps us envision our next stages of development.