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Alexis Clifton
Senior Instructional Support Specialist, SUNY Geneseo
Alexis Clifton is a long-time open education advocate. Building from her first experiences using OER in her English Composition courses at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, WA, she went on to design open composition courses in the national Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative, and became a Faculty Success Lead and Course Developer with Lumen Learning. She acted as the founding Executive Director of SUNY OER Services, serving all 64 institutions of the State University of New York in the support and development of local campus OER initiatives. She is currently the Vice President of the Board of Directors for Open Education Global. Now working as a Senior Instructional Support Specialist at SUNY Geneseo in Geneseo, NY, Alexis specializes in open, accessible, and inclusive course design to expand educational opportunities for everyone.
Catherine Mitchell, PhD
Director, Publishing & Special Collections
California Digital Library, University of California
Catherine is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning, development, and operational management of CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections program, which develops and maintains production services that enable robust access to unique digital assets from the University of California (UC) and beyond. Through the development of advanced technologies and creative partnerships, this program provides the UC scholarly community with innovative open access publication and distribution solutions and aggregates world-class digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums throughout the State of California, in both cases serving an array of end users including researchers, scholars, students, and the general public. Services include eScholarship (UC’s Open Access IR/Publishing platform, with 80+ journals) and Calisphere (a gateway to over one million digitized historical images, texts and recordings). Catherine is also Operations Director of UC’s Office of Scholarly Communication and, in this capacity, is particularly engaged in questions of use, value, authorship, and professional legitimacy.
Paul Albert
Identity Services Product Manager, Weill Cornell Medicine
Paul Albert is Identity Architect and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine. His interests include identity management, scholar information management, and author disambiguation.
Hyunah Baek
PhD candidate in Linguistics, Stony Brook University
Hyunah Baek is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at Stony Brook University, specializing in experimental linguistics, prosody, and second language acquisition. Her dissertation research investigates how people use intonation to resolve ambiguity in their native and second languages.
Sarbajit Dutta
Senior Software Developer, Weill Cornell Medicine
Sarbajit Dutta is Senior Software Developer at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is a passionate full stack developer, comfortable in a range of languages and technologies. Most recently, he has become adept with Kubernetes.
Elizabeth Nelson
Reference & Instruction Librarian, Penn State Lehigh Valley
Elizabeth Nelson is a reference and instruction librarian at Penn State’s Lehigh Valley campus. Prior to this position, she worked as a librarian at Penn State Abington and as an adjunct librarian at Millersville University. She received her MLS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware. Her research areas include gamified instruction and open educational resources.
Kristen Nyitray
Director, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries
Kristen J. Nyitray is Associate Librarian and Director of Special Collections and University Archives, and University Archivist at Stony Brook University. Her publications range from articles on archival science and video game history to the books Long Island Beaches and Stony Brook: State University of New York. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, and recipient of the Chancellor’s Award from the State University of New York and the President’s Award from Stony Brook University for Excellence in Librarianship.
Kelee Pacion
Biology Librarian, Princeton University Library
Kelee Pacion joined Princeton University Library in 2019 as the Biology Librarian. Kelee holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology, a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction, a Master of Information Resources and Library Sciences, and a Master of Public Administration. Her focus is on the life sciences, education, and science communication. She has taught several credit bearing courses on writing for Wikipedia and Applied Science Communication which led to her invitation to join the editorial board of the WikiJournal of Science in 2018.
Victoria Pilato
Digital Projects Librarian, Stony Brook University Libraries
Victoria Pilato is the Digital Projects Librarian at Stony Brook University Libraries and chairs the Digital Initiatives Working Group. She holds a BFA in printmaking in addition to an MLIS and enjoys learning and discussing intellectual property issues as they pertain to building digital collections.
Mona Ramonetti
Head of Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University Libraries
Mona Ramonetti is the Head of Scholarly Communication at Stony Brook University Libraries and Stony Brook University’s Open Educational Resources Campus Lead. She is also the liaison to the Life Sciences Departments. Her scholarly interests include Open Access, Instruction, Open Educational Resources, Presentation Skills and Diversity related issues in academia.
Nicole Sampson
Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University
Nicole S. Sampson is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University. A distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Sampson completed her undergraduate studies at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, and completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. After holding an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, she joined Stony Brook University in 1993 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, later serving as chair of the Department from 2012-2017. She founded and served as Co-Director (2010-2019) of a Chemical Biology Training Program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She served from 2010–2019 on the American Chemical Society Joint Board-Council Committee on Publications and as Chair from 2016–2018.
Sarah Weaver
Editor, Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA)
Sarah Weaver is the co-creator of the Journal of Network Music and Arts, Stony Brook University Libraries’ first Open Access Journal. While there has been much written about network music and arts, this is the first known journal dedicated to this field. Sarah has been in this field for 13 years. She obtained her PhD from Stony Brook University. She is also the creator of NowNet Arts.
Georgia Westbrook
Open Educational Resources & Instruction Librarian, Touro College
Georgia Westbrook is the Open Educational Resources & Instruction Librarian at Touro College in Manhattan, where she leads Open Touro, the college’s OER initiative. She is a recent graduate of the iSchool at Syracuse University and holds a BA from Binghamton University, where she started her career in libraries as a student working on The Open Repository @ Binghamton and other digital initiatives.
Alex Yeung
PhD student in Linguistics, Stony Brook University
Alex Yeung is a PhD student from the department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University.
