Victoria Brame is a former K-12 educator and second-career librarian at Lone Star College-CyFair. As an institutional leader in open education, she spearheads OER-related services and outreach while piloting affordability initiatives such as LSC-CyFair’s Z-Degree pathway and the CyFair Affordable Learning Materials (CALM) Grant program. Victoria also serves as Past Chair (formerly Chair and Vice Chair) of the Houston Area OER Consortium (HAOER).

Caitlin Carter is the Director of HELIOS Open (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship), a project that emerged from the National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship. She manages the work of over 100 colleges and universities that have joined to collectively move forward a more trustworthy and transparent research ecosystem. Previously, she served as both the Scholarly Communication Informationist and the Open Access and Scholarly Communication Policy Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, socializing the open access policy on behalf of the president's office and libraries.

Olivia Chin is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries. Originally from West Tennessee, she holds a Master of Library Science degree from Texas Woman's University and has worked in academic libraries for over 8 years. In her current role, Olivia provides research support to faculty, staff, and students. Ask her questions about copyright, open access publishing, open access funding, and more!"

As Executive Director of the OA Book Usage Data Trust, Christina puts board strategy into practice by leading research and strategic partnerships while supporting staff, subcontractors, and working committees. Her position is hosted by the University of North Texas Library

Colleen Lyon is the Head of Scholarly Communications at the University of Texas at Austin. In this role she supports the institutional repository, Texas ScholarWorks, open access publishing, copyright and author rights. She is broadly interested in how to improve the scholarly communication system to make it more equitable for authors and readers.

John Edward Martin  is Director of Scholarly Communication at the UNT Libraries in Denton, TX. He oversees the Libraries' scholarly communication and publishing services, outreach & educational programming, open publishing platforms, OER and open textbook support, scholarly impact consulting, and data management planning services. He is a member of the Libraries Research Support Services unit and the Digital Scholarship Committee. He also serves as a member of the THECB OER Founding Fellows program and the ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow presenters team. He is currently working on an open scholarly monograph on Edgar Allan Poe and comics to be published by the UNT Libraries.

Jessica McClean is the Director of Open Educational Resources (OER) & Digital Scholarship at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries where she advances university initiatives related to open education and open access. Jessica runs the UTA CARES Grant program, which provides financial support for faculty pursuing OER projects, manages open publishing of OER and open journals through Mavs Open Press, and administers MavMatrix, the UTA institutional repository and archival hub. She currently serves on the Open Education Network’s Pub101 Committee, the DOERS3 Innovation Workgroup, and the UTA Faculty Senate

Jennifer Pate is the Director of OpenEd at Texas A&M Libraries where she supports student success through textbook equity initiatives. She leads OER campus workshops and works with individual faculty to find OER to complement their courses.  She has worked with the AACU's Institute on Open mentoring campuses through their OER Program development.  Jennifer has completed the Open Education Network’s Certificate in OER Librarianship, Creative Commons Certification, the Library Copyright Institute, and recently completed a second Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology and Design focused on incorporating open education practices.

Khaleedah Thomas (she/her) is the Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian and associate professor at Colorado State University. She holds an M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science and an M.S. in Justice Studies from San Jose State University. In her current role, she leads the Libraries’ efforts to develop and promote open access, copyright education programs, and copyright best practices among faculty, researchers, and students.

Ashley Young (she/her) is the Collections Strategies and Open Access Librarian and assistant professor at Colorado State University. She holds an MSLS from University of North Texas. In her current role, she oversees the libraries’ efforts to develop and promote open access, including transformative agreement evaluation and open access policies, as well as overseeing the humanities, arts, social sciences, and business resources for the libraries.