Bethany Nowviskie is director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) at the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). She also serves as research associate professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at the University of Virginia (U.Va.). From 2007-2015, Nowviskie directed the Scholars’...
Anasuya Sengupta is co-founder and coordinator of the global campaign Whose Knowledge?, work supported by a 2017 Shuttleworth Fellowship. She has worked in India, across the Global South, and internationally for more than 20 years, leading initiatives to amplify voices from the margins in virtual...
Abby Smith Rumsey is a writer and historian focusing on the creation, preservation, and use of the cultural record in all media. She has written and lectured widely on digital preservation, online scholarship, the nature of evidence, the changing roles of libraries and archives, intellectual...
Nic Weber is an Assistant Professor at the Information School and a member of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) and the Data Lab at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in Information Science from the University of Illinois in 2015. ...
Chris Coward is the co-founder, Principal Research Scientist, and Director of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School. Under his leadership, TASCHA has grown in size and scope, encompassing research in over 50 countries, exploring opportunities for information...
Carole Palmer is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Research at the Information School at the University of Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research investigates information work in the digital age,...
John Fraser is President & CEO of New Knowledge Organization Ltd., interdisciplinary social science think tank collaborating with change-makers to build a strong, healthy democracy and thriving biosphere. He is a conservation psychologist, architect, and educator whose research focuses on how our experience with cultural...
Beverly Sheppard is a Research Fellow at New Knowledge Organization Ltd. and has deep expertise in strategic and interpretive analysis and planning for non-profit institutions. She has led numerous projects developing and exploring the learning intersections between museums, libraries, and other community-based institutions. She was...