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Sarah Melton

Sarah Melton is a PhD Candidate in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Her research examines public histories of South African apartheid resistance and the U.S. civil rights movement. She is the assistant managing editor of the open access journal Southern Spaces (http://www.southernspaces.org), a journal about the regions, places, and cultures of the US South and their global connections.

Kate Wittenberg

As Managing Director of Portico, Kate Wittenberg is responsible for leadership and management of ITHAKA’s digital preservation service. Prior to this position, Kate served as Project Director, Client and Partnership Development in ITHAKA’s Strategy and Research group, where she focused on helping clients develop organizational and business models for their digital projects.

Erin Mckiernan

Erin McKiernan is a Researcher in Medical Sciences at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. She received her PhD in Physiological Sciences in 2010 from the University of Arizona. Her research involves the integration of experimental and computational approaches to solve diverse problems in epidemiology, physiology, and neuroscience. She is an advocate for open access, open data, and open source, and blogs about her experiences with open science at emckiernan.wordpress.com. You can follow her on Twitter @emckiernan13. 

Susan Skomal

Susan Skomal, Ph.D., has been President/CEO of BioOne since 2005. BioOne was launched in 2001 as an innovative not-for-profit collaboration among scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private sector to provide cost-effective access to high quality biological, ecological, and environmental science research. The organization provides a platform, as well as distribution, marketing and sales services to nonprofit publishers for the full-texts of bioscience research journals.

John Nickerson

John Nickerson currently Professor and Vice-Director for Research in the Ophthalmology Department at Emory University, which he joined in 1991. Preceding that he was a Biologist at the National Institutes of Health for ten years. He received a BS in biology from MIT in 1974 and a PhD in Human Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1980. He has served on Emory University's Library Policy Committee since 2007 and chaired the committee from 2009-2012.

Sarah Lippincott

Sarah Lippincott is Program Manager for the Library Publishing Coalition project, a two-year initiative to create a new organization to support library publishing and scholarly communications activities in conjunction with 60 academic libraries. Lippincott received her MSLS from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BA in the College of Letters and French Studies from Wesleyan University. Before joining Educopia, she supported communications and research activities for ARL, SPARC, and the open access journal eLife.

Anna Pechenina

Anna Pechenina is a Ph.D candidate in Political Science at the University of North Texas, Denton with concentration in Comparative Politics and Methodology. She holds a B.A. from Truman State University in Music and Political Science. Her research focuses on Fiscal Politics of Federal States; specifically - strategic implications of intergovernmental transfers. At UNT, Anna serves as Vice President of Administration and Finance for the Graduate Student Council.

Masood Ashraf Raja

Author of Constructing Pakistan (Oxford UP), Dr. Masood Ashraf Raja is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory and the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. Dr. Raja specializes in politics of the Islamic world, issues of Islamic radicalism, and US relations with the Muslim world with a specific focus on Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East. Dr. Raja moved from Pakistan, his native country, to America in 1996 after ten years of military service as an officer in the Pakistan army.