Most people are never taught how to live well with others. We learn to read, to drive, to manage money — but the skills that shared living actually requires are left to instinct and trial-and-error, usually discovered the hard way in the middle of a conflict.
Roomieology exists to change that. It’s a shared-living education platform built on a simple conviction: the skills required to live well together are learnable, and most people simply never get the chance to learn them deliberately. Through a book series and a set of practical digital tools, Roomieology turns those skills into something you can actually practice.
It grows directly out of decades of teaching, research, and hands-on work with people navigating the real challenges of shared life.
Meet the Authors
Marcie Tucker, Ph.D.
Marcie Tucker is an educator, consultant, and the creator of the Roomieology framework. She holds a doctorate and has spent her career at the intersection of human development, organizational behavior, and the design of environments where people can genuinely thrive together.
Marcie’s career spans an extensive background in student affairs and years teaching in graduate-level programs in Higher Education and Student Affairs, where she trained countless practitioners who go on to support students navigating exactly the kinds of transitions this book addresses. Her work draws on years of practice, lived experience, and a deep conviction that the skills required for shared living are learnable — and that most people simply never get the chance to learn them deliberately.
Through Tucker Consulting Services LLC, Marcie works with institutions, organizations, and individuals on communication, community-building, and the practical design of shared life. Roomieology grows directly out of that work — years of teaching and hands-on practice with people in the most challenging moments of their shared living relationships.
She lives in Colorado with her husband and co-author, Gardiner Tucker.
Gardiner “Tuck” Tucker, Ph.D.
Gardiner Tucker is an educator, organizational development scholar, and life and ADHD coach whose career has centered on how people build community in the spaces they share. He earned his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park — one of the nation’s top programs in college student personnel and higher education administration — where his dissertation examined organizational development in residence hall associations, studying directly under a foremost researcher on organizational climate and culture.
Over a decade as a senior student affairs leader — serving as dean of students, regional associate vice-chancellor for student affairs, and assistant vice-president for student affairs — Tuck specialized in human-centered organizational change. Drawing on political mapping and a keen read of organizational climate, he worked alongside his teams rather than imposing structures and policies from the top down, reshaping that climate in ways that benefited students and staff alike. That same collaborative conviction — that the best outcomes are built together, not dictated — runs throughout Roomieology.
His research interests include emotional intelligence and leadership, organizational development, and future self-continuity. He has sailed with Semester at Sea three times (once as a student and twice as a staff member) and attended high school in Belgium — global experiences that shaped his commitment to social justice and inclusive practice in higher education. He lives in Colorado with his wife and co-author, Marcie Tucker.