Posie Aagaard

Posie Aagaard

As Assistant Vice Provost for Collections and Curriculum Support at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Posie Aagaard oversees departments that acquire and promote discovery of all kinds of scholarly resources, in addition to providing researcher support and scholarly communication services. She is currently working on an MSIT (cybersecurity concentration).

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Anna Abalkina

Anna Abalkina

Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She has a background in international economics but recently she concentrated her research on academic misconduct, plagiarism, and predatory and hijacked journals. Anna also serves as an expert for Dissernet.

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Axelle Ahanhanzo

Axelle Ahanhanzo

Axelle Ahanhanzo is a Customer Success Manager at Elsevier, where she has been working for the past three years. Next to her work, she volunteers as the co-leader and co-founder of Embrace, an Elsevier Employee Resource Group (ERG) focused on race and ethnicity. She holds a BA in modern languages and European studies from the University of Birmingham (UK), an MSc in corporate communication from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and a certificate in DE&I in the workplace from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business.

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Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander is the Web Accessibility Lead at ITHAKA, with a focus on improving the experience for all individuals. Previously working to advance accessibility within Michigan State University’s IT department, he came to ITHAKA with a background in both User experience and Accessibility.

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Tony Alves

Tony Alves

Tony Alves has worked in scholarly communications since 1990 and leads a team of product managers at Highwire Press, ranging from online platforms and content management systems to analytics tools to access and entitlement software, to e-commerce and order fulfillment systems. 

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José R. F. Arruda

José R. F. Arruda

José R. F. Arruda is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the University of Campinas. He holds a Doctoral degree from UPMC, Paris. He is currently an advisor for scientific collaboration and Open Science of the São Paulo State Foundation (Fapesp). He is Associate Editor of Acta Acustica. His research involves structural dynamics and elastic metamaterials.

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Sabrina Ashwell

Sabrina Ashwell

Sabrina J. Ashwell was a member of the Research & Writing team for the Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication. She is senior copyeditor for Chemical & Engineering News at the American Chemical Society, where she also leads work on the ACS Inclusivity Style Guide.

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Liz Bal

Liz Bal

Liz Bal is Director of Open Research Services at Jisc, a non-profit organization focused on providing digital services and solutions for research and education. A biologist by education, Liz has over 10 years of experience in open access publishing and scholarly communication. Prior to joining Jisc, she held various publishing roles at BioMed Central and Springer Nature.

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Edward J. Balleisen

Edward J. Balleisen

Edward J. Balleisen is Professor History and Public Policy and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. His administrative duties include supporting collaborative research, pedagogical innovation, and civic engagement across Duke’s ten schools, and cultivating student-centered PhD education. His most recent book is Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (2017).

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Christopher Barnes

Christopher Barnes

Christopher A. Barnes is Assistant Professor and Digital Publishing Librarian at Adelphi University, where he oversees the institutional repository and the University Libraries’ open access publishing program. He serves as production editor for the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability and his research focuses on the reform of scholarly communications and the use of open educational resources.

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Peter Barr

Peter Barr

Peter Barr is Head of Content & Collections at the University of Sheffield Library. He was appointed in September 2019 to lead the development of the Library’s Comprehensive Content Strategy (adopted 2021). Through this, and more broadly, he is interested in the role libraries can play in developing an ethical, community-owned alternative to commercialized academic publishing, and the limits to which this can be achieved from within marketized institutions.

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Patricia K. Baskin

Patricia K. Baskin

Patricia K. (Patty) Baskin, MS, is Executive Editor of the four Neurology® journals published by the American Academy of Neurology: Neurology, Neurology: Clinical Practice, Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, and Neurology: Genetics. She is a former SSP Program Committee co-chair and is past president of the Council of Science Editors (CSE). She serves as CSE’s representative to the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Publications (C4DISC).

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Lisa Bayer

Lisa Bayer

Lisa Bayer has been the Director of the University of Georgia Press since 2012. She was President of the Association of University Presses 2021/2022. Prior to moving to Georgia, she worked for the University of Illinois Press and the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

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Tracy Bergstrom

Tracy Bergstrom

Tracy Bergstrom is the program manager for collections and infrastructure within Ithaka S+R’s Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums program. In this role, she collaborates on a variety of projects that examine contemporary challenges relating to the management, access, and discovery of analog and digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations.

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Peter Berkery

Peter Berkery

Peter Berkery has served as the Executive Director of the Association of University Presses since early 2013. Berkery came to AUPresses (then AAUP) from Oxford University Press, where he served for the previous five years as Vice President and Publisher for the US Law Division. Prior to that he worked for Wolters Kluwer for 11 years in a series of positions, publishing works on securities licensing examination training, securities law, taxation, and financial planning. He began his publishing career at a division of Thomson Reuters.

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Swarnali Bhattacharya

Swarnali Bhattacharya

Swarnali Bhattacharya is a publishing professional at Enago Academy. He is actively involved in developing comprehensive and easy-to-understand resources for researchers and assisting them in their publication journey. Through the Global Risk Assessment initiative, He is also working on identifying, assessing, and raising awareness of global risk factors that potentially affect the researcher community.

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Sara Bosshart

Sara Bosshart

Sara Bosshart is the Open Access Publisher at IWA Publishing, the publishing division of the International Water Association, where she is responsible for implementing a strategic transition towards Open Access. Originally a marine geologist, Sara began her publishing career at Frontiers where she launched and managed a suite of new OA journals in the Physical and Life Sciences, including Frontiers in Marine Science.

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Brittany Brannon

Brittany Brannon

Brittany Brannon is Research Support Specialist at OCLC Research. She received her MLIS from Kent State University and MA from the University of Kansas. Her research interests are in information seeking behavior, academic research skills, and scholarly communication.

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Rebecca Bryant

Rebecca Bryant

Rebecca Bryant, PhD, is Senior Program Officer with OCLC. She previously served as Assistant Dean in the University of Illinois Graduate College and Director of Community at ORCID. Her research interests include research information management (RIM), persistent identifiers, and institutional scholarly communication practices.

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Rachel Caldwell

Rachel Caldwell

Rachel Caldwell is scholarly communication librarian at University of Tennessee Knoxville. She has a dual Master’s degree in Information Science and Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to her position in scholarly communication, Rachel worked in museums and as an instruction librarian.

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Melissa H. Cantrell

Melissa H. Cantrell

Melissa H. Cantrell is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder. Melissa’s research focuses on the shifting nature of the scholarly communication landscape, specifically relating to open access and assessing the efficacy of different publishing models.

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Mark Carden

Mark Carden

Mark Carden is the director of the Researcher to Reader Conference, and a Managing Consultant at recruitment firm Mosaic. Mark has worked in the publishing and libraries sector for over 20 years, including holding senior sales and marketing positions at Ingenta, Ingram, and Dynix.

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Lori Carlin

Lori Carlin

Lori Carlin is Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Consultant at Delta Think, and has held numerous positions in scholarly communications throughout her career, mainly focused on business strategy, market research, and customer engagement. She is currently serving as co-chair of the SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee.

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Jamie Carmichael

Jamie Carmichael

Jamie Carmichael brings nearly 20 years’ experience in publishing to her current role as Senior Director, Information & Content Solutions at CCC. In this position, she owns go-to-market strategy for the company’s open scholarly communications portfolio.

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Chhavi Chauhan

Chhavi Chauhan

Chhavi Chauhan, Ph.D. (She/Her) is Director of Scientific Outreach at the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) and Director of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program at the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. She is a past Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) Committee of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and a current staff member of the Committee for Equal Representation and Opportunities (CERO) at ASIP.

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Tony Chen

Tony Chen

Tony Chen, Ph.D. (he/him) is a Journal Publishing Manager at Wiley, where he manages a portfolio of journals in Oncology, Pathology, and Basic Medical Science under the Health Sciences banner. He is passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) and entered publishing with the goal of making it a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible industry for all marginalized individuals.

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Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D. is a historian at the White House Historical Association, and an expert in Early American history, the presidency, and the government – especially the president’s cabinet. Chervinsky shares her research by writing everything from op-eds to books, speaking on podcasts and other media, and teaching every kind of audience. Chervinsky has been featured in the Law and History Review, the Journal of the Early Republic, Presidential Studies Quarterly, TIME, and the Washington Post. Her book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, was published by the Belknap Imprint of Harvard University Press on April 7, 2020.

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Tom Ciavarella

Tom Ciavarella

Tom Ciavarella is the head of Public Affairs and Advocacy in North America for Frontiers and runs Smarter Learning, a consultancy that works with startups and STM publishers. He is formerly manager of Publisher Relations for Clarivate Analytics, where he coordinated communication and content strategy with the Web of Science Group from both the US and UK.

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Geraldine Cochran

Geraldine Cochran

Geraldine Cochran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Office of STEM Education at Rutgers University. As a physics education researcher, Cochran investigates strategies for modifying physics curricula to support students underprepared in math and ways to broaden participation in physics. Cochran also provides organization-wide inclusion/climate assessments.

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Niccole Coggins

Niccole Coggins

Niccole Coggins is the editorial, design and production coordinator and assistant project editor for the University of Virginia Press. Before UVA, she was a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at the University of Washington Press where she combined her lifelong interests in racial identity and indigenous sovereignty working on books in Asian American and Indigenous studies, and American and environmental history. She is a PhD candidate in history at the University of California Santa Barbara.

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Dana Compton

Dana Compton

Dana Compton is the Managing Director and Publisher for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), having previously served in the role of Editorial Director for ASCE. Prior to joining ASCE in 2018, she was a Senior Consulting Associate with KWF Consulting, served as Publication Director at PNAS, and held production positions at the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Thompson Publishing Group. Dana also served as the 2019-2020 President of the Council of Science Editors.

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Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the Director of Library Trends and User Research at OCLC Research. She has numerous journal publications, is an international speaker, and is co-author of Basic Research Methods for Librarians, 4th and 5th editions, and of Research Methods in Library and Information Science, 6th and 7th editions.

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Rod Cookson

Rod Cookson

Rod Cookson currently runs IWA Publishing, which spreads knowledge about the world’s most valuable resource, water. He is a Director and Council Member of ALPSP and a Council Member of the Society Publishers’ Coalition. Before joining IWA Publishing, Rod spent ten years at Taylor & Francis, variously running the Medical and Life & Environmental Science journal portfolios. He has also worked for Blackwell Publishing and Reed Education.

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Christopher Daley

Christopher Daley

Christopher Daley has over ten years’ experience working in both academic and professional services positions within higher education. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Westminster and originally worked as a Visiting Lecturer before moving into research support roles, initially within scholarly communications and more recently in posts focused on research development and research strategy. Christopher continues to actively participate in research, peer reviewing for a number of journals and undertaking his own projects exploring the interaction between scholarly research cultures and the external funding landscape. He works in the Department of Research and Innovation at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Jeremy Dean

Jeremy Dean

Jeremy Dean is Vice President of Education at Hypothesis, a mission-driven software company dedicated to improving online discourse through annotation. He was previously the Director of Education at Genius where he facilitated educational applications of their interactive archive of literary and historical texts.

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Caroline Desrosiers

Caroline Desrosiers

Caroline Desrosiers is the Founder & CEO of Scribely, a company on a mission to make images and videos more accessible to blind and visually impaired people and more discoverable to search engines. Scribely’s team of expert writers specialize in writing alt text for images and audio description for videos, helping digital media providers create born-accessible visual content for a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world.

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Annika Deutsch

Annika Deutsch

Annika Deutsch is an MS/LIS candidate at the iSchool at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Annika works at Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, which supports research for the College of Engineering, and will be joining the University of Utah as a Science and Engineering Librarian after graduation. 

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Betsy Donohue

Betsy Donohue

Betsy Donohue is the VP of Publisher Business Development for Digital Science. Before joining Digital Science in 2013, Betsy worked in a variety of marketing, sales and business development positions, including at the Ingram Content Group, Scope eKnowledge and SWETS.

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Brooke Doyle

Brooke Doyle

Brooke Doyle is a Senior Project Coordinator at OCLC splitting her time between the Library Trends and User Research and WebJunction. Her work at OCLC has been varied including the Improving Access to Civil Legal Justice project and the Supercharged Storytimes project.

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Christina Drummond

Christina Drummond

Christina Drummond has built a career helping efforts scale their operational capacity. In addition to advising on the sunsetting of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), and acting as lead facilitator for the It Takes a Village: Open Source Software Models of Collaboration & Sustainability project, she previously served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Educopia from 2015-2017, and currently serves as the founding Executive Director of the OA Book Data Trust, a global effort to establish trusted mechanisms that facilitate the ethical, direct data exchange, aggregation and benchmarking of open and proprietary book usage data.

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Dawn Durante

Dawn Durante

Dawn Durante is the Editor in Chief at the University of Texas Press. Dawn’s master’s thesis was on trust, peer review, and ebooks, and she is a member of the editorial collective for the Feeding the Elephant scholarly communications forum on the H-Net Book Channel. You can follow her on Twitter @dawnd.

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Mark Edington

Mark Edington

Mark Edington is the founding director of the Amherst College Press and the publisher of Lever Press, two initiatives to build a pathway for peer-reviewed, digitally native scholarship from a liberal arts perspective through a platinum open access model.

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Katie Einhorn

Katie Einhorn

At the time of this writing, Katie Einhorn (pronouns: she/her) was a Peer Review Manager at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she served as a Journals program operations and project manager, guiding the strategy for peer review and implementing best practices for both open science and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in peer review. Katie worked closely with Aries to implement process improvements that streamline APA journals based on individualized needs, drive strategic goals of the organization, and sustainably scale the peer review program. Katie now works in a knowledge management role for GetUpside, a startup that personalizes brick-and-mortar commerce to help communities thrive.

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Sally Ekanayaka

Sally Ekanayaka

Sally Ekanayaka is the Scholarly Communications Manager at MyScienceWork, with a focus on reinforcing the dissemination and popularization of research outputs. In her previous roles, Sally has worked in various functions related to editing and reviewing articles, marketplace operations and community building strategies.

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Christina Emery

Christina Emery

Christina Emery is senior marketing manager for Palgrave Macmillan’s and Springer’s open access books programmes at Springer Nature. She studied French with German at the University of Leeds and went on to work for the European Patent Office in Munich. Before her current role, she was Partnership Manager at Knowledge Unlatched. Christina is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit.

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Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski

Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski

Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD, is the Vice President, Research Intelligence on the Global Strategic Networks team at Elsevier, where her responsibilities center on how insights from data, metrics, and analytics guide strategic planning for research, funding and policy organizations, as well as how open science is advancing to strengthen the research enterprise.

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Laura Feetham

Laura Feetham

Laura Feetham is Reviewer Engagement Manager at IOP Publishing. She has over 13 year’s experience in scholarly publishing, working at The Lancet and BMJ before moving to IOP Publishing. Laura works on innovations that future-proof peer review, ensure that reviewers are recognised and rewarded for their work, and safeguard the integrity of the scientific record. These innovations include the launch of IOP Trusted Reviewer status, a comprehensive peer review training programme, and co-review, among others.

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Ashley Fernandes

Ashley Fernandes

Ashley Fernandes is a publishing professional at Enago Academy. She is actively involved in developing comprehensive and easy-to-understand resources for researchers and assisting them in their publication journey. Through the Global Risk Assessment initiative, she is also working on identifying, assessing, and raising awareness of global risk factors that potentially affect the researcher community.

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Victoria Ficarra

Victoria Ficarra

Victoria Ficarra is a Researcher for Research Consulting, where she works to deliver trusted advice to regional, national, and global academic communities, public institutions, and private actors to improve the effectiveness and impact of research and scholarly communication. Victoria supports the wider team as a researcher on a variety of projects, covering research, scholarly communication, and knowledge exchange.

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Georgie Field

Georgie Field

Georgie is an Associate Publisher working for PLOS. She has been working in the publishing industry for almost 5 years, having held a variety of Editorial and Publishing roles. Her current role focusses on supporting strategy for the PLOS journals portfolio, and she has worked on PLOS CAP and Global Equity business models to ensure the ongoing sustainability of Open Access in STM.

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Richard Fisher

Richard Fisher

Richard Fisher has worked in academic publishing since 1983. Previously Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, he is now Deputy Chairman of Yale University Press (London), a non-executive director of Edinburgh UP and Vice-President and Chair of Publications for the Royal Historical Society. He also writes a regular blog for the Independent Publishers Guild in the UK on the intersection of academic publishing and public policy.

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Yael Fitzpatrick

Yael Fitzpatrick

Yael Fitzpatrick is Editorial Ethics Manager at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has worked in a variety of roles within the scholarly communications community for over 25 years, including as Art Director for the Science family of journals. She is currently serving in her fourth and final year as co-chair of the SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee.

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Michelle Fleetwood

Michelle Fleetwood

Michelle Fleetwood, PhD (she/her) is the Publishing Integrity Manager within the American Chemical Society’s Publication Division. She focuses on the advancement of ACS’ core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect (DEIR) in the peer review and publishing processes.

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Domiziana Francescon

Domiziana Francescon

Domiziana Francescon serves as the Elsevier Foundation Partnerships Manager and is a strong supporter of the company’s Corporate Responsibility program. Domiziana also works on a number Elsevier’s externally focused partnerships, especially in sustainability and women in technology spaces. Additionally, she is the Co-Chair of the Communications team of Research4Life, a UN-publisher partnership to bridge access gaps for researchers and doctors in developing countries. Domiziana obtained a master’s degree in Book and Digital Media Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, with a specialization in Publishing Studies.

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Jennifer Frederick

Jennifer Frederick

Jennifer Frederick is a senior surveys analyst at Ithaka S+R on the Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums team. She leads projects surveying directors and staff of libraries, museums, and other scholarly organizations. She uses a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to examine organizational culture, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is interested in improving outcomes related to access and feelings of belonging.

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Lily Garcia Walton

Lily Garcia Walton

As Chief People Officer, Lily Garcia Walton drives Silverchair’s people strategy, enabling the success of Silverchair’s exceptional professionals. She has more than two decades of experience leading technology, education, media, and professional services organizations through transformative change while preserving a strong culture and a sense of mission.

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Roohi Ghosh

Roohi Ghosh

Roohi Ghosh is the ambassador for researcher success at CACTUS. She is passionate about advocating for researchers and amplifying their voices on a global stage. Through strategic outreach and engagement efforts, she works to build bridges between researchers and industry stakeholders, fostering productive partnerships that lead to greater success and impact for the research community.

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Matt Giampoala

Matt Giampoala

Matt Giampoala serves as the Vice President for Publications for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) where he oversees its journals, books, and preprint programs. Matt has led efforts in expanding access and engagement through open science and reproducibility initiatives and is an advocate for promoting equity and inclusion in scholarly publishing. Matt has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Shalu Gillum

Shalu Gillum

Shalu Gillum is the Head of Public Services for the Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. She presented at MLA InSight on the Challenges in Promoting Information Literacy in an Academic Medical Center.

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Gisela Concepción Fosado

Gisela Concepción Fosado

Gisela Concepción Fosado is the Editorial Director at Duke University Press and publishes books in a wide range of areas in the humanities and social sciences. She also co-leads Duke University Press’ Task Force for Equity and Inclusion. Gisela holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan.

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Chris Graf

Chris Graf

Chris Graf is the Research Integrity Director for Springer Nature. He volunteers as chair of the governance board for the STM Integrity Hub, volunteers as program committee member for the World Conference on Research Integrity, and was volunteer Trustee at COPE until 2019.

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Sarah Greaves

Sarah Greaves

Sarah Greaves is an independent consultant working across STEM publishing. Sarah has over 20 years of experience in the industry. She was originally an academic researcher before joining the editorial team at Nature Cell Biology after which she became the Publisher for Nature. She launched Nature Communications and Scientific Reports and was recently the Chief Publishing Officer at Hindawi. 

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Craig Griffin

Craig Griffin

As the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Silverchair, Craig Griffin works with clients, end users, architects, and user experience designers to develop Platform solutions for our client’s success. This role includes market evaluation, feature analysis, business case development, technical review, and prioritization. ChatGPT did not write this bio (yet).

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Michael Groth

Michael Groth

Michael Groth is Director of Marketing at KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. where he oversees strategy and implementation of digital, social, advertising, PR, and event programs. Mike has spent over 25 years in marketing for scholarly publishing, previously at Emerald, Ingenta, NEJM, and Wolters Kluwer.

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Darrell Gunter

Darrell Gunter

Darrell Gunter has held key senior executive positions for leading companies in the electronic intellectual property industry including; Dow Jones Financial News Services, Elsevier, Collexis, The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and Allerton Press, Inc. He heads up his own strategic consultancy firm the Gunter Media Group, Inc.

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Mark Hahnel

Mark Hahnel

Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. For the last eight years, Mark has been leading the development of research data infrastructure, with the core aim of reusable and interoperable academic data. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He was on the judging panel for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science prize and acted as an advisor for the Springer Nature master classes.

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Kathleen Kelly Halverson

Kathleen Kelly Halverson

Kathleen Kelly Halverson is the Editorial Projects Editor for the Serial Publications and Editorial Services Division of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 228,000 audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology personnel; and students. ASHA’s mission is “making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.”

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Gabe Harp

Gabe Harp

Gabe Harp leads the Digital Products & Software Services team at the MIT Press, where he is neck-deep in digital books, journals, open access, and exploring new ways of working. Before joining the MIT Press he spent many years with Cell Press / Elsevier. He will be joining the Society for Scholarly Publishing Board of Directors as of the 2020-2021 term.

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Susan J. Harris

Susan J. Harris

Susan J. Harris is managing editor of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association, where she combines her interests in psychology and publishing. She also serves on SSP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.

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Alan Harvey

Alan Harvey

Alan Harvey has been the Director at Stanford University Press since 2012, having joined the Press in 2002 as Editor-in-Chief. Prior to Stanford, Alan worked for Cambridge University Press as Executive Editor for the Sciences, working from Cambridge, New York, and California.

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Jo Havemann

Jo Havemann

With a background in Evolution and Developmental Biology, Dr. Jo Havemann is a trainer and consultant in [Open] Science Communication and [digital] Science Project Management. Her work experience covers NGOs, a science startup and international institutions including the UN Environment Programme. With a focus on digital tools for science and her label Access 2 Perspectives, she aims at strengthening global science communication in general – and with a regional focus on Africa – through Open Science.

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Johanna Havemann

Johanna Havemann

With a background in Evolution and Developmental Biology, Dr. Jo Havemann is a trainer and consultant in [Open] Science Communication and [digital] Science Project Management. Her work experience covers NGOs, a science startup and international institutions including the UN Environment Programme. With a focus on digital tools for science and her label Access 2 Perspectives, she aims at strengthening global science communication in general – and with a regional focus on Africa – through Open Science.

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Kate Heaney

Kate Heaney

Kate Heaney is the Product Manager for the Journal Citation Reports, among other products, at Clarivate. Prior to joining Clarivate, she managed journals at Taylor & Francis and developed and acquired books for medical professionals at Wolters Kluwer. She also serves on the Career Development Committee for SSP.

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Hannah F. Heckner

Hannah F. Heckner

Hannah F. Heckner is VP of Product, Silverchair. She has served as Product Strategist at Silverchair since the start of 2020. In this position she provides detailed product visioning, helps to prioritize and execute on the platform development plan, and oversees the Silverchair Universe program. She previously served as the Associate Director of Product Development and the Science Partner Journal Program within the Office of Publishing at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In that capacity she aided in horizon scanning for and executing on new product ideas for the Science family of journals and its supporting advertising and partnerships business lines while also helping to develop and manage the Science Partner Journal program, launched at the end of 2017. Hannah has worked within the scholarly publishing arena since 2010 and has experience within commercial publishers, non-profit publishing societies, and is excited to have made the recent transition to a platform provider.

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Rachel Helps

Rachel Helps

Rachel Helps is the Wikipedian-in-residence at the Brigham Young University library. She was on the editorial board for the Wikijournal of Humanities from 2018 to 2020. She and her student employees create and edit Wikipedia pages related to the library’s collections.

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Ana Heredia

Ana Heredia

Ana Heredia is a former researcher turned scholarly communications specialist. A biologist by training, after an MSc in Neurosciences, a PhD in Sciences, and two postdocs, Ana joined the STM publishing world, developing expertise in scientific information infrastructure, analytics, and publishing. During more than 20 years of research and professional experience, Ana developed knowledge and a vision of the different components in the research ecosystem, and solid connections globally at universities, research funding and government agencies. She is an engaged member of SSP and C4DISC, and part of the NISO Plus Advisory Committee. Ana is particularly committed to open research, the responsible use of metrics in research evaluation, and bibliodiversity and multilingualism as part of the inclusion and diversity in scholarly communication agenda.

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Melody Herr

Melody Herr

Melody Herr, PhD, has more than 20 years of professional experience in scholarly communications and scholarly publishing. Formerly an acquisitions editor for the University of Michigan Press, she currently heads the Office of Scholarly Communications at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She recently published Writing and Publishing Your Book: a Guide for Experts in Every Field (2017).

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Philipp Hess

Philipp Hess

Philipp Hess studied Engineering and Industrial Design in the Netherlands and Japan, before getting into scholarly content while working for Kiron, a platform that offers higher education to refugees. He is currently the Head of Publisher Relations at the Knowledge Unlatched GmbH and is pursuing a complimentary Master Degree at the Hochschule St.Gallen and the University of Arts Berlin in “Leadership in digital Innovation”. His goal is to make knowledge accessible to everyone, everywhere and to help shape the future dissemination of scholarly content.

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Simon Holt

Simon Holt

Simon Holt is Head of Central Strategies, Content Acquisition at Elsevier. He is also Disability Confidence Manager for the organization, working to identify and remove barriers that prevent people with disabilities achieving their potential at work. He lives in Oxford, UK.

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Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is Director, Open Research Solutions at Public Library of Science (PLOS), where he leads a programme of activity to increase adoption of open science practices, and increase the benefits of adopting open science. This includes PLOS’ initiatives relating preprints, open data, open code, and open methods and protocols.

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Sylvia Izzo Hunter

Sylvia Izzo Hunter

Sylvia Izzo Hunter is Manager, Product Marketing, Community & Content, at Wiley Partner Solutions; previously she was marketing manager at Inera and community manager at Atypon, following a 20-year career in scholarly journal and ebook publishing. She is a member of the SSP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee. She lives in Toronto.

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Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde is the co-founder of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) where he leads technical projects, building platforms, methodologies, and communities to support open source collaborative knowledge production and publication as part of the academic process.

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Yvette Hyter

Yvette Hyter

Yvette D. Hyter is Professor Emeritus of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Western Michigan University, owner of Language and Literacy Practices, LLC, and co-managing editor of the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability. Her areas of research are culturally responsive practices, social pragmatic communication in children with histories of trauma, and social justice and equity in curricula, research, policies, and practices.

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Mary Grace Hébert

Mary Grace Hébert

Mary Grace Hébert is the Content Development Specialist at the National Communication Association. Mary Grace received her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2019. She draws on her experiences working in a learned society to reflect on the benefits of hiring PhDs into staff roles.

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Violaine Iglesias

Violaine Iglesias

Violaine Iglesias is CEO & co-founder of Cadmore Media, the first video hosting platform dedicated to scholarly information. Cadmore’s vision is to provide the best on-demand streaming technology and service to scholarly and professional organizations so they can publish media content in the same expert way they do journals and books. With prior roles at SAGE Publishing, GVPi and Random House, Violaine has 18 years of experience in academic and trade publishing, including 8 years working with video publishing solutions.

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Steven Inchcoombe

Steven Inchcoombe

Steven Inchcoombe is Chief Publishing Officer at Springer Nature. He is a member of the Management Board and his responsibilities cover all the research publishing and editorial activities of Springer Nature, the services provided to its authors, peer-reviewers, editors and societies, the experience of its customers when using its products and publishing platforms, and its Open Access and Open Research activities. Previously Steven was Head of House and CEO at Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan (PM).

Prior to this Steven was UK Publisher for The Financial Times and led ft.com. From 1990 to 2000 he was at IDC where he held commercial, development, marketing and general management positions, ultimately responsible for group strategy and corporate development and the EMEA region. Steven was awarded a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read Physics specializing in atomic and solid-state physics and qualified as a chartered accountant with PWC in 1990.

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Simon Inger

Simon Inger

Simon Inger is a Consultant with Renew Consultants and has been working in the scholarly information space for over thirty years. His work with Renew is largely in strategy-setting with scholarly societies in North America and Europe. In addition to his role at Renew, Simon is the COO and Co-founder at Cadmore Media, a specialist streaming media solutions provider for societies, a Board Advisor to Accucoms, and Conference Chair of the Society Street series of conferences.

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John Ioannidis

John Ioannidis

John Ioannidis is the C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention, Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics; co-Director, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford; Director of the PhD program in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, at Stanford University.

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Jerry A. Jacobs

Jerry A. Jacobs

Jerry A. Jacobs is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard in 1983. He has served as the Editor of the American Sociological Review, President of the Eastern Sociological Society, Founding President of the Work and Family Researchers Network, and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2018-2019.

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Annie Johnson

Annie Johnson

Annie Johnson is the Associate University Librarian for Publishing, Preservation, Research, and Digital Access at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press. Previously, she was the Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives and Scholarly Communications at Temple University Libraries and Press.

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Joshua Luke Johnson

Joshua Luke Johnson

Joshua Luke Johnson is the Director of Data & IT for Uptown Stories, a nonprofit that provides creative writing and storytelling workshops to children of Manhattan. He also serves as Managing Editor for the George Washington University Journal of Ethics in Publishing. He lives in Washington Heights, New York.

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Daniel S. Katz

Daniel S. Katz

Daniel Katz is the Chief Scientist at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Research Associate Professor in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is working to make research software more sustainable by encouraging scholarly incentives and academic career paths for those who work on it, policy changes for its recognition and support, and best practices to make it easier to develop and maintain. He is an Associate-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Open Source Software, leads the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s journals task force, and is the Steering Committee Chair for the Research Software Alliance (ReSA).

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Curtis Kendrick

Curtis Kendrick

Curtis Kendrick currently serves as Binghamton University Libraries Faculty and Staff mentor, having most recently served as dean of libraries for the University. Prior to his positions at Binghamton, Kendrick served as university dean for libraries and information resources at the City University of New York (CUNY), and has held library administrative positions at Columbia University, Harvard University, Stony Brook University and Oberlin College.

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Sarah Ketchley

Sarah Ketchley

Sarah Ketchley, PhD is a senior digital humanities specialist at Gale and an Egyptologist, art history scholar and a lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization at the University of Washington, where she teaches introductory and graduate-level classes in digital humanities.

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Reem Khamis

Reem Khamis

Reem Khamis is Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and director of the Neurophysiology in Speech-Language Pathology Lab at Adelphi University. She is a co-managing editor of the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability and editor of the language section for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

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Shaun Khoo

Shaun Khoo

Shaun Khoo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal where he studies the neuroscience of addiction. He is the founder of Episteme Health Inc., non-profit association that aims to provide free open access neuroscience publishing.

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Véronique Kiermer

Véronique Kiermer

Véronique Kiermer is the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS where she oversees the editorial department and the development of services, products, and policies to promote open science. Before joining PLOS in 2015, she held various editorial roles with the Nature journals, and worked in R&D in the biotechnology industry. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Keystone Symposia, ORCID and on the Steering Committee of PREreview.

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Paul Killoran

Paul Killoran

Paul is a published researcher who founded Ex Ordo in 2011, and is driven by a passion for improving the scholarly conference experience through exceptional software. When he’s not pouring his energy into the future of scholarly society events, you’ll find him spending time with his growing family, or enjoying a pint of Guinness by an open fire.

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David Kim

David Kim

David Kim is Business Development Manager, Career Center Publishing for Wiley, where he partners alongside society leaders to elevate strategic solutions for member career value and industry partnerships. He’s passionate about uncovering and driving creative projects that improve diversity and equity in the scholarly space, such as serving the Women In Medicine Summit as Co-Editor of its annual compendium and as Board Advisor to the Women In Science At Columbia group. David was previously Associate Editor/Journal Publishing Manager at Wiley, responsible for a portfolio of society-owned journals in finance, economics, statistics, demography, geography and health policy. David is currently pursuing an MS in Education, specializing in Digital Age Learning & Education Technology at Johns Hopkins University, where he combines his passions for innovative solutions that improve learning and access to education. He received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University and is a proud member of the Columbia Dragon Boat racing team of New York.

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Rebecca Kirk

Rebecca Kirk

Rebecca Kirk is Publisher, Portfolio Development at PLOS, where she has a focus on developing journals that embed equitable practices to address global societal challenges. She is also a Co-Chair of the SSP DEIA Committee and a HESI SDG Publishers Compact Fellow.

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Duleeka Knipe

Duleeka Knipe

Dr Duleeka Knipe is suicide epidemiologist and a Vice Chancellor’s Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Research Fellow at University of Bristol. She is part of the Bristol Suicide and Self-harm group and is a commissioner and section lead on the Lancet Commission on suicide and self-harm.

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Thilo Koerkel

Thilo Koerkel

Thilo Koerkel is the publisher of the New Ground journal, based near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He was an editor of physics and astronomy at Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German edition of Scientific American, and, until 2022, a Strategic Partnerships Manager of Nature Research, the publisher of Nature.

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Julia Kostova

Julia Kostova

Julia Kostova, PhD is Executive Editor at Wiley’s Global Research division, where she manages a portfolio of high-profile journals in the life sciences published on behalf of leading international scholarly societies. Prior to joining Wiley, Julia was Senior Editor at Oxford University Press, where she oversaw the Press’s digital and scholarly reference publishing program in the humanities. She is chair of the Generations Fund Subcommittee at SSP, as well as a member of the Finance Committee.

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Alicia J. Kowaltowski

Alicia J. Kowaltowski

Alicia J. Kowaltowski is an MD/PhD (State University of Campinas – Unicamp) and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she heads the Energy Metabolism Lab. She is interested in scientific dissemination, responsible research assessment, and, above all, everything related to mitochondria.

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Shaina Lange

Shaina Lange

Shaina Lange is Senior Manager, Publishing Integrity Office at the American Chemical Society. She oversees the strategy, policies, and activities to support publishing integrity across the ACS journals portfolio, with a focus on embedding ACS’ core value of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect (DEIR) in the peer review and publishing processes.

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