The Thinkerer Award is presented to an individual whose deeds and actions have shown consistent selfless service towards the promotion of learning, community, educational practices, and who exemplifies the spirit of cooperative development within immersive environments. The recipients of this lifetime achievement award are not simply outstanding professionals in their field, they characterize transformational leadership qualities which: * envision and guide change; * enhance the motivation, morale, and performance of others; * promote best practices and continuous improvement; and * inspire through their words and actions. One such individual, Sheila Webber, known across the metaverse as Sheila Yoshikawa, is our 2023 Thinkerer Award recipient. Sheila has many accomplishments, including being invited into the Educators CoOp, which was led by Bluewave Ogee and North Lamar. This article states that it was a Model for Collaboration. She co-supervised Dr. Ridvan Ata’s Ph.D. which included a case study of her inworld class, where he served as an assistant. She has regular information literacy events, discussions, and exhibits at Infolit iSchool, including celebrations of Information Literacy Week and running an information literacy journal club. Sheila’s Second Life educational work was acknowledged in her citation for the University of Sheffield Senate Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching in 2017, which is the highest teaching honor in the university. She has developed material on play in virtual worlds, for the University of Sheffield FutureLearn MOOC “Exploring Play” which has run numerous times. She enjoys giving talks about different aspects of virtual worlds including pedagogy, information behavior, identity, research methods, to librarians and researchers at international conferences. Where the highlight, up to now, has been invited to do a talk in Prague. And she has so enjoyed working with colleagues from different sectors, backgrounds, and countries in many organizations such as VWER, VWEC, where she is a founding board member, and VWBPE. It is for all these reasons, and more, that the VWBPE Organizational Committee proudly confirms Sheila Webber, Sheila Yoshikawa as the VWBPE 2023 Thinkerer Award recipient.