Director of Operational Purchasing & Travel,
Ohio University

Kelly M. Broughton has 30 years of experience in academic libraries including 15 years as the Assistant Dean for Research Education Services at the Ohio University Libraries. At Ohio University, she led the Campus Study Space Task Force, a group of faculty, students, and staff who investigated campus study spaces and worked to improve the discovery, navigation, utility, and belonging environments of those spaces. As part of Ohio University’s Campus Space Optimization Initiative, she leads a focus area examining collaboration, work, and study spaces. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cincinnati, an MLS from Dominican University, and a PhD in Higher Education from Ohio University. She has presented on her research about the relationship between study spaces and undergraduate students’ sense of belonging at the 2019 ACRL Conference and the 2022 AACU Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success.

Study Space Research Assistant, Ohio University

Lauren Slanker is a fourth-year psychology major at Ohio University graduating this May! She currently works as a student desk assistant at Alden Library assisting patrons with any of their technology or book finding needs. She is also the Vice President of the Ohio University
Women’s Club Soccer Team and a member of the President’s Student Cabinet for Inclusive Excellence. Most importantly, she is the research assistant for the Study Space Task Force working with students to discover their sense of belonging and inclusivity in Athens Campus study spaces. Lauren has also just committed to Ohio University’s Clinical Mental Health
Counseling graduate program starting this coming fall! Go Bobcats!

Associate Vice-President, University Planning,
Ohio University

Shawna Wolfe is an alumna of Ohio University and serves as the Associate Vice President for University Planning and Space Management. Ms. Wolfe leads a University Planning function that encompasses strategic planning for the physical and digital environment including strategic and campus master planning, space programming, capital planning and real estate strategy. Ms. Wolfe applies her passion for the University’s academic mission by providing informed planning through collaborative engagement and holistic purpose. Currently, Ohio University is undertaking a comprehensive strategic planning update to reimagine all campus space across the portfolio. Shawna has led key transformational master plan efforts and championed major transformational project strategies through creative vision and development frameworks. Additionally, she has created comprehensive capital plan architecture for financial prioritization and data informed decision and progress metrics. Prior to Ohio University, she was a Senior Planner and Project Team Leader for Hilferty and Associates, a large-scale interpretive museum consulting firm. From master planning and visioning, to detailing interactive experiences, this opportunity was a multi-faceted country-wide interdisciplinary experience that shaped the “why” behind all her work.

Chief People Officer, Silverchair

Lily Garcia Walton (she/her/hers) is Chief People Officer of Silverchair, where she architects the company’s people strategy and enables the success of Silverchair and its exceptional professionals. For more than 20 years, she has successfully led technology, education, media, and professional services organizations through transformative change by preserving strong culture, operational excellence, and a sense of mission. Lily is passionate about maximizing human potential and she proudly serves on the boards of Computers4Kids (a STEM mentorship organization) and Bryant & Stratton College. Lily is an employment attorney and a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources. She is a resident of Nelson County, Virginia, where she shares a cottage in the woods with her husband, two boys, three rescue cats, and a Morkie-Poo.

George W. Taylor Professor of Management & Director, Center for Human Resources The Wharton School and Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2003-2005, and since 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore. He has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, and a faculty member at MIT, the University of Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley. He was a staff member on the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency from 1988-’90, Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, and a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Post-Secondary Improvement at Stanford University. Professor Cappelli has served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences and three panels of the National Goals for Education. He was recently named by HR Magazine as one of the top 5 most influential management thinkers and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He received the 2009 PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for contributions to human resources, The 2022 Michael Losey Award from the Society for Human Resource Management for excellence in research, and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Liege in Brussels. He served on the Global Agenda Council on Employment for the World Economic Forum and a number of advisory boards.

Deputy Chief Librarian, Library & Museums,
University of Alberta

Dr. Kathleen DeLong, is the Deputy Director, Library & Museums, University of Alberta. Kathleen has a Masters in Public Management from the University of Alberta and a doctorate from Simmons University in Boston, as well as an MLIS from the University of Alberta. Kathleen also teaches for the School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Alberta and served as Interim Director for the School during 2020-2022.

Interim Director of Library Human Resources,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Monica Figueroa is Interim Director of Library Human Resources and Librarian for Inclusive Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries. In this capacity, she serves as Program Director for the Libraries’ Reckoning Initiative and as a strategic advisor to the Library Leadership Team on various library priorities related to transforming the University Libraries’ services, programs, and scholarship. She is passionate about social justice issues related to race, gender, and economic inequity, and her professional goals include exploring new ways of leveraging the infrastructure of academic libraries to serve underserved communities of patrons. Monica participates in other forms of advocacy, serving as Director of the Carolina Academic Library Associates Program (a partnership between the University Libraries and the UNC School of Information and Library Science), Co-Chair of the Libraries’ Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Council, and a past member of ARL’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Institute Task Force. A native of Ann Arbor, MI, Monica earned her MS in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University in 2014, after having earned an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2011 and a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.

Access and Inclusion Librarian, University of Toronto

Mai Lu is currently on secondment as the Access and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries. Following the secondment, she will return to her position as Head of Public Services and Outreach at the University of Toronto Mississauga Library. Mai’s commitment to creating welcoming and inclusive spaces stems from her work in public libraries and has continued into academic libraries. Mai is an ARL LCDP Fellow 2022-2023, has a Master of Information Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law from York University.

Associate Dean of Libraries for Academic Engagement, Simon Fraser University

Ebony Magnus is Associate Dean of Libraries for Academic Engagement at Simon Fraser University Library in British Columbia, Canada. Her work in this role is grounded in sustainability and reciprocity, underpinned by an unwavering commitment to advancing equity. She is responsible for strategic leadership of the Library’s teaching and learning activities, as well as access and accessibility. From 2019-2022, Ebony was Head of Belzberg Library at SFU Vancouver campus, where she oversaw daily operations, undertook significant community engagement and arts and culture projects, and worked closely with campus units to create a vibrant and inclusive environment for staff, students, faculty, and community members. Previous to her three years of strategic and operational leadership at SFU, Ebony was the Interim Library Manager at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). Other past positions include the Assessment & User Experience Librarian at SAIT and User Experience and Assessment Librarian at Michigan State University. Ebony is an active member of professional organizations, including serving on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship and as the former Chair of the Kaleidoscope Program Task Force in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Her research includes theory and practice of critical library assessment. Ebony received her MLIS from University of British Columbia (2013) and holds a Masters of Arts in English Literature from Carleton University (2009).

Dean of Libraries, Simon Fraser University

Gwen Bird has been Dean of Libraries at Simon Fraser University since 2014. She was previously Executive Director of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL), a consortium of western Canadian university libraries. She is a member of the SPARC Steering Committee, and a past member of the boards of CRL, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. She is past chair of the ARL Scholars and Scholarship Committee, and is active on collaborative shared print projects in Canada and beyond.

President, Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

Gregory T. Eow (PhD, MLIS) is President of the Center for Research Libraries, responsible for setting strategic directions and overall CRL programming and services in collaboration with the CRL Board of Directors, CRL staff, CRL member libraries, and CRL strategic partners. Before joining the Center for Research Libraries in 2019, he served as the Associate Director for Collections at the MIT Libraries, where he led an administrative portfolio that included scholarly communications and collections strategy, digital preservation, acquisitions and metadata creation, and the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Eow has held previous appointments as Charles Warren Bibliographer at the Harvard Library and as Kaplanoff Librarian for American History at the Yale University Library. Eow currently serves on the Management Board of the MIT Press as well as the Board of Directors of the Chicago Collections Consortium. He is a member of the American Historical Association. 

Associate Chief Librarian, Collections
University of Toronto 

Caitlin Tillman joined the University of Toronto Libraries in 2009 and became Associate Chief Librarian, Collections in 2014. Her portfolio now includes Collection Services, Metadata Services, the Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office, the Downsview preservation facility, and Resource Sharing. She is currently focused on shared print and building collaborative collections at the national level in Canada. She contributes to work of the Keep@Downsview partnership, the Partnership for Shared Book Collections, and is Chair of the Steering Committee of North: the Canadian Shared Print Network/Nord: Le réseau Canadien d’imprimées partagés. She holds an MIS from the University of Michigan and previously held positions at the University of Ottawa, Yale, and the Bank of Montreal.  

Director of Library Initiatives, Big Ten Academic Alliance

As the Director of Library Initiatives for the Big Ten Academic Alliance, Maurice is responsible for coordinating collective action at scale amongst the research libraries of the BTAA toward their commitment to realizing an interdependent, networked future. The central initiative in Maurice's portfolio is the BIG Collection, a comprehensive strategy to strengthen an interdependent future for the world-class research libraries of the BTAA by
joining the separate collections into one collection, shared and fully networked, across all physical and digital domains. Maurice works closely with the library deans/directors of the fifteen member research libraries to help shape strategies that the consortium pursues, oversee execution of those strategies, and continually work to build pathways to interdependence and coherence across member universities. He is responsible for exploring, analyzing, and identifying areas for collective action and innovation and oversee collaborative initiatives through the many cross-institutional project groups of the BTAA. In his previous position, Maurice was on the executive leadership team at the University
of Michigan Library, where he led the technology division in developing and delivering cornerstone digital infrastructure projects for information discovery, content preservation, and access.

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Darrell M. West is a Senior Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. He holds the Douglas Dillon Chair in Governance Studies, and is the author of a number of books including Power Politics: Trump and the Assault on American Democracy (Brookings, 2022); Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Brookings, 2020; with John Allen), Divided Politics, Divided Nation: Hyperconflict in the Trump Era (Brookings, 2019), and The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation (Brookings, 2018), among others. He is the winner of the American Political Science Association’s Don K. Price award for best book on technology (for Digital Government) and the American Political Science Association’s Doris Graber award for best book on political communications (for Cross Talk). His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and he has delivered lectures in numerous countries around the world.

Assistant Professor, Utah State University

Dr. Rebecca Y. Bayeck is an Assistant Professor in the department of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences at Utah State University. She holds a dual-Ph.D degree in Learning Design and Technology & Comparative International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research lies at the intersection of learning sciences, educational technology, literacy studies, and the interdisciplinary field of game studies. Within this intersection, her research includes games (digital & analog); learning and literacies, including artificial intelligence (AI) literacy; emerging technologies, design of inclusive learning spaces and exhibitions. She is also interested in how culture shapes learning and literacy practices in different environments. She holds a dual-Ph. D in Learning Design and Technology and Comparative International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. She is the founder, director, and project lead of the Hub for Artificial Intelligence Research in Archives (HAIRA). Recently, she organized a workshop on AI in Archival Appraisal and Selection sponsored by the International Council on Archives (ICA). Dr. Bayeck worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

Executive Director, National Institute for Student Success Georgia State University

Timothy Renick is the founding Executive Director of the National Institute for Student Success and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. Between 2008-2020, he directed the student success efforts of the university, overseeing a 62% improvement in graduation rates and the elimination of all equity gaps based on students' race, ethnicity, or income level. For six consecutive years, Georgia State has graduated more African American students with bachelor’s degrees than any other not-for-profit college or university in the nation. Dr. Renick has testified on strategies for helping university students succeed before the U.S. Senate and has twice been invited to speak at the White House. His work has been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and CNN and cited by former President Barack Obama. It was also the subject of the book, Won’t Lose this Dream (New Press, 2020) by Andrew Gumbel. Dr. Renick was named one of the Most Innovative People in Higher Education by Washington Monthly and one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine.  He was the recipient of the Award for National Leadership in Student Success Innovation and was awarded the McGraw Prize in Higher Education. He has been principal investigator for more than $50 million in research grants focused on promoting better and more equitable outcomes for college students. At Georgia State, he has served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Director of the Honors Program and Senior Vice President. A summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Renick holds his M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University.  

Assistant Head, Learning and Instructional Services and User Services and Engagement Librarian,
Simon Fraser University

Carolyn Caseñas is the Assistant Head, Learning and Instructional Services and User Services and Engagement Librarian - Fraser Library at Simon Fraser University. She previously worked in programming and community engagement in public libraries. In addition to connecting libraries with their communities, her interests include mentorship and coaching. Carolyn co-facilitates the CAPAL (Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians) Displays, Outreach and Engagement Community of Practice and is a 2022-2023 ARL Leadership and Career Development Program Fellow.

Assistant Director of Public Services, Emory University

Gabrielle M. Dudley is the Assistant Director of Public Services at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Gabrielle earned her M.A. in Public History and MLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies and Preservation Management from the University of South Carolina. She also holds a B.A. in History from the University of Montevallo. Gabrielle has published articles and book chapters on public services in special collections libraries and is an active professional. She was appointed by President Biden and confirmed by the US Senate as a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. Her professional interests include public services, Black women writers’ archives, and library leadership and development.

Interim Director of Library Human Resources,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monica Figueroa is Interim Director of Library Human Resources and Librarian for Inclusive Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries. In this capacity, she serves as Program Director for the Libraries’ Reckoning Initiative and as a strategic advisor to the Library Leadership Team on various library priorities related to transforming the University Libraries’ services, programs, and scholarship. She is passionate about social justice issues related to race, gender, and economic inequity, and her professional goals include exploring new ways of leveraging the infrastructure of academic libraries to serve underserved communities of patrons. Monica participates in other forms of advocacy, serving as Director of the Carolina Academic Library Associates Program (a partnership between the University Libraries and the UNC School of Information and Library Science), Co-Chair of the Libraries’ Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Council, and a past member of ARL’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Institute Task Force. A native of Ann Arbor, MI, Monica earned her MS in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University in 2014, after having earned an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2011 and a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.