past-keynotes.yml

- id: evergreen-team
  name: Evergreen Team
  bio: "The Evergreen Project was initiated by the Georgia Public Library System in 2006 to serve their need for a scalable catalog shared by (as of now) more than 275 public libraries in the state of Georgia. After Evergreen was released, it has since been adopted by a number of library consortia in the US and Canada as well as various individual libraries, and has started being adopted by libraries outside of North America. The Evergreen development community is still growing, with about eleven active committers and roughly 65 individuals who have contributed patches (as of March 3, 2013). However, the Evergreen community is also marked by a high degree of participation by the librarians who use the software and contribute documentation, bug reports, and organizational energy. As such, Evergreen is very much about both the developers *and* the users."
  twitter_handle: EvergreenILS
  work_title:
  institution:
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/evergreen.jpeg
  year: 2006

- id: karen-schneider
  name: K.G. Schneider
  bio:  "I am the Dean of the Library at Sonoma State University, an august entity that disavows everything written on this blog and through the wriggling of eyebrows hints around that perhaps I could be doing something better with my time like running a university library, yo. I was formerly the University Librarian at Holy names University in Oakland, California (a place that seems remarkably similar to the 'Cupcake U' I sometimes blogged about)."
  twitter_handle: kgs
  work_title: Dean of the Library
  institution: Sonoma State University
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/karenscheider.jpg
  year: 2007

- id: erik-hatcher
  name: Erik Hatcher
  bio:  "Co-author, Lucene in Action and Java Development with Ant (aka Ant in Action). Authored many articles at java.net, IBM developerWorks, and JavaPro. Frequent speaker at industry conferences, particularly the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium circuit."
  twitter_handle: erikhatcher
  work_title: Senior Solutions Architect
  institution: Lucidworks
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/erikhatcher.jpeg
  year: 2007

- id: brewster-kahle
  name: Brewster Kahle
  bio: "Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all knowledge for more than twenty-five years."
  twitter_handle: brewster_kahle
  work_title: Digital Librarian
  institution: Internet Archive
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/brewsterkahle.jpg
  year: 2008

- id: karen-coyle
  name: Karen Coyle
  bio: "Karen Coyle is a librarian with over thirty years of experience with library technology. She now consults in a variety of areas relating to digital libraries. Karen has published dozens of articles and reports, most available on her web site, kcoyle.net."
  twitter_handle:
  work_title:
  institution:
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/karencoyle.jpg
  year: 2008

- id: jon-udell
  name: Jon Udell
  bio: "Working for Hypothesis on an open annotation layer."
  twitter_handle: judell
  work_title:
  institution: Hypthesis
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/jonudell.jpg
  year: 2008

- id: stefano-mazzocchi
  name: Stefano Mazzocchi
  bio: "Previously, he worked as an Application Catalyst at Metaweb Technologies Inc. tasked to help enabling a development ecosystem around Freebase as a platform. Metaweb was acquired by Google in 2010. Before that, he was a research scientist at MIT working on the SIMILE Project for the Digital Library Research Group of the MIT Libraries."
  twitter_handle: stefanomaz
  work_title: Software Engineer
  institution: Google
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/mazzocchi.jpg
  year: 2009

- id: sebastian-hammer
  name: Sebastian Hammer
  bio: "My talent is to discern structure within a complex maze of needs and requirements, to see realistic solutions to problems, and to bridge the gap between customers and technical teams."
  twitter_handle: shammer46
  work_title: Information Retrieval Consultant
  institution: Index Data LLC
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/hammer.jpg
  year: 2009

- id: ian-davis
  name: Ian Davis
  bio: "British technology entrepreneur. Primary interests are open data, the semantic web and decentralization."
  twitter_handle: iand
  work_title: VP Engineering
  institution: Avocet Systems
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/iandavis.jpg
  year: 2009

- id: cathy-marshall
  name: Cathy Marshall
  bio:
  twitter_handle:
  work_title: Principal Researcher
  institution: Microsoft
  image_src: /assets/img/nopics/nopic1.jpg
  year: 2010

- id: paul-jones
  name: Paul Jones
  bio: "As a teacher, I try to help smart people get smarter. If I do my work right, they think they did it all themselves. Perhaps they did. At ibiblio.org, we help people who want to share their information freely and legally do so."
  twitter_handle: smalljones
  work_title: Director
  institution: ibiblio.org
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/pauljones.jpg
  year: 2010

- id: diane-hillmann
  name: Diane Hillmann
  bio: "She is the editor of Using Dublin Core, former administrator of the AskDCMI Service, co-moderator of the DC Education Community, and former member of the DCMI Usage Board. She is active in the library standards community, having served several terms on the MARC Standards Advisory Committee (MARBI) as a liaison from the law library community and as a LITA representative."
  twitter_handle:
  work_title: Director of Metadata Initiatives
  institution: Information Institute of Syracuse
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/dianehillmann.jpg
  year: 2011

- id: dan-chudnov
  name: Dan Chudnov
  bio: "20-year hacker / librarian and newly-trained data scientist."
  twitter_handle: dchud
  work_title: Director, Scholarly Technology
  institution: George Washington University
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/danchudnov.jpg
  year: 2012

- id: bethany-nowviskie
  name: Bethany Nowviskie
  bio: "Computing humanist/humane computationalist since 1996."
  twitter_handle: nowviskie
  work_title: Director of the Digital Library Federation
  institution: University of Virginia
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/nowviskie.jpeg
  year: 2012

- id: leslie-johnston
  name: Leslie Johnston
  bio: "Leslie Johnston has over twenty years’ experience in digitization and digital conversion, setting and applying metadata and content standards, and overseeing the development of digital content management and delivery systems and services."
  twitter_handle: lljohnston
  work_title: Director of Digital Preservation
  institution: The National Archives (NARA)
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/lesliejohnston.jpeg
  year: 2013

- id: gordon-dunsire
  name: Gordon Dunsire
  bio: "linked data. semantic web. metadata. digital libraries. collection-level description. databases for information."
  twitter_handle: gordondunsire
  work_title: Independent Consultant
  institution:
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/gordondunsire.jpg
  year: 2013

- id: sumana-harihareswara
  name: Sumana Harihareswara
  bio: "I contribute to and lead open source software communities. More generally, I'm a programmer, technology executive and open source expert who teaches both technical and process skills."
  twitter_handle: brainwane
  work_title: Open source programmer
  institution: The Ada Initiative
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/harihareswara.jpg
  year: 2014

- id: valerie-aurora
  name: Valerie Aurora
  bio: "A writer, programmer, and feminist activist. I am a co-founder of the Ada Initiative, a non-profit to promote women in open technology and culture, and also Double Union, a feminist makerspace in San Francisco."
  twitter_handle: vaurorapub
  work_title: Interim Executive Director
  institution: The Ada Initiative
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/valerieaurora.jpg
  year: 2014

- id: andromeda-yelton
  name: Andromeda Yelton
  bio: "I’ve been a math major and a middle school Latin teacher. Now I’m a librarian and technologist, and the thing that keeps me up at night and makes me smile is empowering librarians through code."
  twitter_handle: thatandromeda
  work_title: Library Consultant
  institution: Small Beautiful Useful
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/andromeda.jpg
  year: 2015

- id: selena-deckelmann
  name: Selena Deckelmann
  bio: "I contribute to PostgreSQL, run Postgres Open and keep chickens."
  twitter_handle: selenamarie
  work_title: Data Architect
  institution: Mozilla
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/selenadeckelmann.jpg
  year: 2015

- id: kate-krauss
  name: Kate Krauss
  bio: |
    Katie has been an influential political strategist and organizer since the late 1980s. An early member of ACT UP, she lead and organized a diverse statewide coalition that succeeded in tripling the budget of California's AIDS Drug Assistance Program and restructuring the State of California's AIDS funding priorities. One of the first US activists to embrace international AIDS advocacy, she was a key strategist behind the global AIDS treatment movement in the late 1990s, working with groups such as Health GAP and TAC of South Africa.<br>In 2002, Katie founded the AIDS Policy Project (www.AIDSPolicyProject.org) to work on AIDS issues relevant to the global community. She currently directs a national advocacy campaign focused on re-establishing a cure for AIDS as major public goal. She works with leading researchers and international health societies to identify and overcome obstacles to this critical research<br>Katie also works closely with Chinese AIDS activists and human rights defenders and has built a diverse, powerful coalition of western advocacy groups interested in AIDS in China. Her advocacy was influential in securing some $90 million in aid for China's HIV/AIDS programs and institutionrumental in the release of nearly three dozen Chinese activists detained by Chinese authorities for their work since 2002. She organized the successful international campaign for the release of Wan Yanhai, which was covered on the front page of the New York Times.<br>As Communications Coordinator for the AIDS campaign at Physicians for Human Rights, Katie has placed front page stories in the Washington Post and many other outlets.<br>Katie has worked as an advocate on diverse AIDS issues such as clinical trial ethics, vaccine advocacy, the structure of medical research, pediatric AIDS, trade and IP issues, harm reduction, prison health care, Medicaid, the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Africa's health worker shortage, financing for the Global Fund, and PEPFAR reauthorization.
  twitter_handle:
  work_title: Director of Communications and Public Policy
  institution: The Tor Project
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/krauss.jpg
  year: 2016

- id: gabriel-weinberg
  name: Gabriel Weinberg
  bio: |
    Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track you, and the co-author of Traction, the book that helps you get traction.
  twitter_handle: yegg
  work_title: CEO & Founder
  institution: DuckDuckGo
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/weinberg.jpg
  year: 2016

- id: andreas-orphanides
  name: Andreas "Dre" Orphanides
  Last: Orphanides
  bio: |
    Dre is the Associate Head of User Experience at NCSU. He is also a long time participating Code4Lib community member. He is one of the co-founders of the beloved Code4Lib workshop, Fail4Lib, which created an inclusive and safe space to talk about project failures and generate constructive conversation around the failures. He's given brilliant and thoughtful talks on user experience and system design.
  twitter_handle:
  work_title: Associate Head, User Experience
  institution: NC State University Libraries
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/orphanides.jpg
  year: 2017

- id: christina-harlow
  name: Christina Harlow
  Last: Harlow
  bio: |
    Christina works with metadata at Cornell University Library. She thinks her area of work could be called ‘data operations’, but maybe she just made that up. She likes collaborating with folks on library tech- and data-focused work and events.
  twitter_handle: cm_harlow
  work_title: Metadata Librarian
  institution: Cornell University Library
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/harlow.jpg
  year: 2017

- id: chris-bourg
  name: Chris Bourg
  Last: Bourg
  bio: |
    Chris Bourg is the Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she also has oversight of the MIT Press. She chooses to believe that libraries can and should promote social justice. Read <a href="http://bit.ly/cbourgbio">Chris's detailed bio here</a>.
  twitter_handle: mchris4duke
  work_title: Director of Libraries
  institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/bourg_chris.jpg
  year: 2018

- id: mega-subramaniam
  name: Mega Subramaniam
  Last: Subramaniam
  bio: |
    Mega Subramaniam is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Dr. Subramaniam’s research focuses on enhancing the role of libraries in fostering the mastery of emerging literacies that are essential for STEM learning among underserved young people. Dr. Subramaniam serves as a fellow for the Libraries Ready to Code (RtC) project led by the Office for Information Technology Policy at the American Library Association (ALA OITP). Read <a href="http://bit.ly/msubramaniambio">Dr. Subramaniam’s detailed bio here</a>.
  twitter_handle: mmsubram
  work_title: Associate Professor, College of Information Studies
  institution: University of Maryland
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/Subramaniam_Mega.jpg
  year: 2018

- id: sarah-roberts
  name: Sarah Roberts
  last: Roberts
  work_title: Assistant Professor of Information Studies
  institution: UCLA
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/roberts_sara.jpg
  bio: "Sarah T. Roberts is assistant professor of information studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is internationally recognized as a leading scholar on the emerging topic of commercial content moderation of social media; her book on the topic, <a href=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235883/behind-screen>Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media</a>, is forthcoming in 2019 from Yale University Press. Professor Roberts is a 2018 Carnegie Fellow and a 2018 winner of the EFF Pioneer Award."
  year: 2019

- id: tara-robertson
  name: Tara Robertson
  last: Robertson
  work_title: Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Partner
  institution: Mozilla
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/robertson_tara.jpg
  bio: "Tara Robertson is an intersectional feminist who uses data and research to advocate for equality and inclusion. She has more than 10 years experience making open source and tech communities more diverse and welcoming. Her core values are social justice, collaboration and all things open–open source, open access and open education. Her curiosity and delight in connecting people come together in person and online, where she can often be found asking good questions. <a href=https://tararobertson.ca/about/>Read more on her personal website</a>."
  year: 2019

- id: alison-macrina
  name: Alison Macrina
  last: Macrina
  work_title: Founder and Executive Director
  institution: Library Freedom Project
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/alison-macrina.jpg
  bio: From <a href="https://libraryfreedom.org">LibraryFreedom.org</a>&#58; "Along with founding the Library Freedom Project, Alison is a librarian, internet activist, and a core contributor to The Tor Project. Alison is passionate about fighting surveillance and connecting privacy issues to other struggles for justice. She believes that a world without pervasive surveillance is possible." Library Freedom is a unique, progressive venture in the privacy sphere, putting on training workshops for libraries and librarians as well as advocating for political change.
  year: 2020

- id: alison-langmead
  name: Alison Langmead
  last: Langmead
  work_title: Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences
  institution: University of Pittsburgh
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/alison-langmead.jpg
  bio: Alison Langmead holds a joint faculty appointment between the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches and researches in the field of the digital humanities, focusing especially on applying digital methods mindfully within the context of visual and material culture studies. For the Department of Art History and Architecture, Alison serves as the Director of the Visual Media Workshop (VMW). The mission of the VMW is to develop and encourage the creation of innovative methods for producing, disseminating, and preserving the academic work using digital technologies as a fundamental component of our scholarly toolkit. To achieve these objectives, she directs a technologically-focused environment of collaboration and creativity where students and faculty from a number of departments across the University come together to work on projects that apply digital methods and techniques with focus and intention. For the School of Computing and Information (SCI), Alison researches the relationship between the historical practice of information management and digital computing, both as a historical narrative and also as a complex, changing process in contemporary America. This research, plus all of the theories, concepts, and models that she teaches at SCI, are put into daily practice in her work directing the VMW.
  year: 2020

- id: rudo-kemper
  name: Rudo Kemper
  last: Kemper
  work-title: Earth Defenders Toolkit
  institution: Digital Democracy
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/rudo-kemper.png
  bio: Rudo Kemper works with Digital Democracy on the programs team, and manages the creation of the Earth Defenders Toolkit. Rudo is a human geographer with a background in archives and international administration, and a lifelong technology tinkerer. He is passionate about co-creating and using technology to support marginalized communities in defending their right to self-determination and representation, and towards other decolonizing and emancipatory ends.<br/><br/>
    Before joining Digital Democracy in 2020, Rudo worked for 6 years with the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), most recently serving as mapping and programs manager with a particular focus on the organization’s participatory mapping, community-based monitoring, and intangible cultural heritage work with indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Suriname and the Guiana Shield. Rudo currently serves on the executive boards of Native Land Digital and the International Society for Participatory Mapping. He is one of the core stewards of the open-source geostorytelling application Terrastories, and its principal representative in charge of community outreach and engagement.<br/><br/>
    Originally from Curaçao, Rudo has worked with indigenous and other local communities across the Americas from Canada to the Amazon. He is currently based in Springfield, Virginia.
  year: 2021

- id: regina-gong
  name: Regina Gong
  last: Gong
  work-title: Open Educational Resources (OER) & Student Success Librarian
  institution: Michigan State University Libraries
  image_src: /assets/img/keynotes/regina-gong.jpg
  bio: Regina Gong is actively involved in the open education community and has done numerous national presentations and webinars on OER and open education. She is strongly committed to advancing open practices, equity, inclusion, and access to better serve students. <br/><br/>Before coming to MSU, Regina was the OER Project Manager at Lansing Community College where she led and implemented a successful OER program. Prior to her stint at academic libraries, she worked as a systems librarian at Innovative Interfaces Inc. where she provided support for its cataloging, acquisitions, and serials modules. <br/><br/>Currently, Regina serves on the Steering Committee of the Open Education Conference, SPARC Open Education Advisory Group, and past member of the SPARC Steering Committee, and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) where she served as VP for professional development for three years. She is also the chair of the MI OER Network Steering Committee, a community of practice, and a coalition of OER advocates across P-20 in Michigan. Regina was a recipient of the OER Research Group Fellowship and a member of the Global OER-Graduate Network (GO-GN). She obtained her Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) at Wayne State University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration. Regina’s doctoral research will examine the lived experiences of people of color leading OER projects at post-secondary institutions.
  year: 2022