My wide-ranging career has one overarching theme: helping academia adjust to the digital age. I’m driven by the conviction that websites and applications don’t have to be inhuman for the people who use them or the people who build them. I believe in open scholarship, open source, open data, data standards, and sustainable digital archives.
At Crossref, a nonprofit membership organization for scholarly publishers, I work to encourage and support use of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a standardized dataset of research organizations. In 2021, I helped UCSF archivists write and win a $250,000 grant from the Sloan Foundation for The COVID Tracking Project Archive and helped write and edit content for the website of the NEH-funded project The American Solider in WWII. Before that, I was one of the key leaders of The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, a tremendously influential citizen science initiative where I helped build and nurture a community of more than 800 volunteers dedicated to collecting and publishing key COVID-19 data. I also managed a Mellon-funded digital humanities project at GWU, directed the Digital Research Services unit at Virginia Tech Libraries, and led the THATCamp unconference initiative at GMU’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Read more about my past work.
I live in the Research Triangle in North Carolina in the US, and in my free time I play guitar and upright bass, plant pollinator-friendly flowers, and enjoy the company of one dog and two cats.