Jaime Snyder recently defended her dissertation entitled "Image-Enabled Discourse: Investigating the creation of visual information as communicative practice" at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. Her research focuses on the creation of visual information as a form of multimodal communication. Her dissertation study focuses on drawing as an information-driven communication practice. This work draws on theories from sociolinguistics 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 an initiative entitled Common Ground devoted to exploring synergies between the information, technology and design, supported by 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 earning a PhD in Information Science and Technology, Snyder worked as a practicing artist, teacher and consultant. She held positions in the web development industry as an interactive producer, information architect, project manager 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.