Liz Milewicz holds a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University, where she manages the NEH- funded African Origins Portal, an extension of Voyages that will engage public assistance in discovering the ethno-linguistic origins of Africans caught up in the slave trade. As a Research Associate with Emory University Libraries, she has worked with the DLF on inter-institutional efforts to promote use of OAI, best practices for shareable metadata and MODS, and assessment activities. She holds an MLIS and an MA in English from The University of Alabama and a PhD from Emory University, where her dissertation project explored the changing culture and soundscape of academic libraries.