# Who's who at IOI: staff + affiliates Last updated: 2024-11-04 URL for this page: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/who-is-who URL for this site: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/how-we-work --- **Purpose of this page**: To orient new hires by introducing IOI and CS&S work colleagues and their respective roles and specializations. Intended to help people navigate the names and faces mentioned in meetings and other communication channels. **Definitions** * **Staff** are individuals employed/contracted to work full or part-time with IOI with an engagement period of 6 or more months, and who participate in core IOI activities. * **Affiliates** are individuals or organizations contracted to work with IOI on specific, defined deliverables. Affiliated individuals are typically employed/affiliated with other organizations (and not IOI). [**An organizational chart**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18FssqDdw0f27PtJ5AwTlr0lexVKInJZ4/view?usp=drive_link) is available in our team drive. --- ## Affiliates > ### Jennifer Kemp ![Portrait of Jennifer Kemp](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1XEkuqr3.png =120x) Jennifer Kemp is a consultant with over 20 years of experience leading partnerships, programs and policy in research infrastructure, scholarly publishing and libraries. She was most recently Crossref’s Head of Partnerships where she worked with a variety of stakeholders to improve community participation, metadata and discoverability. Prior to Crossref, she was Senior Manager of Policy and External Relations, North America for Springer Nature, after serving in library marketing and ebook product roles. Jennifer started her career as a librarian before joining HighWire Press where she learned the idiosyncrasies of scholarly publishing across a wide variety of subject disciplines and content formats. She is active in the research support community and serves as Board Secretary for the [OA Book Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust](https://www.oabookusage.org/). More from me on [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4086-3196), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-kemp-scholcomms/) and, reluctantly, Twitter [@SaysJKemp](https://twitter.com/SaysJKemp) > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2023-05 - current ### Matt Canute ![Matt Canute portrait](https://i.imgur.com/6wMMqEz.png =120x) Matt Canute is a data scientist/engineer currently helping to build out the data infrastructure to support IOI’s research and analysis. He is currently the Technical Team Manager at the [Digital Democracies Institute](https://digitaldemocracies.org/) in Simon Fraser University, researching polarization, abusive language, and mis/disinformation across online platforms; he’s passionate about leveraging and promoting open research infrastructure and tools in order to do so. He is also chair of the board at the [Historic Joy Kogawa House](https://www.kogawahouse.com/wp/residencies/), hosting writers and literary events. He also spends too much time on the internet, such as on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcanute/) or [Github](https://github.com/TunaObject). > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2022-07 - current ### Sarah Lippincott ![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ryZc4usrh.jpg =120x) Sarah Lippincott is a librarian and library consultant with a decade of experience supporting open access, digital scholarship, and scholarly communications through strategic planning, research, service design, facilitation, and communications work. In addition to consulting, she currently serves as Head of Community Engagement at Dryad, an open data publishing platform and community. Sarah started her career as the founding Program Director for the Library Publishing Coalition and went on to coordinate assessment, user experience, and strategic planning activities for a major research library; led strategic consulting services for a digital services agency specializing in open source web development for the cultural heritage sector; and consulted on projects for the Educopia Institute, the Next Generation Library Publishing project (NGLP), the Library Publishing Coalition, Candid, the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project, and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), among others. > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2023-05 - current ### Gail Steinhart With a background in academic libraries and environmental science, Gail is an information professional with a passion for open scholarship and infrastructure as public goods. She holds M.S. degrees in Library and Information Science (Syracuse University) and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Cornell University), and worked for nearly 15 years in environmental research before becoming a librarian. Her work in environmental science exposed her to research communities that prioritize sharing data, samples and methods, and led naturally to her early interest in research data librarianship at a time when it was rare outside of the social sciences. From there, she became involved with open scholarship more generally, including being a part of the the DataONE Community Engagement and Education Working Group and the arXiv.org leadership team, managing Cornell’s institutional repository, and launching an open access journal hosting service at Cornell. She has also worked as an IT project manager at Atmire, a company that provides DSpace repository services to clients around the world. Find her on Mastodon as @gailst@mastodon.social or on LinkedIn. Gail is based in Ithaca, NY, located on the unceded homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). > IOI role: Research and Data Analysis Services (contractor) 2024-09 - current; Research Data Analyst (fulltime staff position) 2023-07 - 2024-08 --- ## Staff ### Emma Green Emma Green comes to IOI with over 20 years experience in publishing in various guises at Nature Publishing Group, Delta Think, and Hindawi (as well as digital start-ups along the way): from editor to product developer, to business strategist and partnership development. Known for her transparency and openness, Emma enjoys cultivating relationships and building sustainable products that communities can nurture and build and that ultimately benefit the global research community whilst ensuring financial longevity. Emma trained as a scientist in conservation genetics and marine biology, at Newcastle University, Brown University and University of East Anglia. She has a love of all things sustainable, and also trained as a commercial organic farmer a couple of years ago! She is on the Board of Wild Team UK, supporting their strategy and fundraising goals; and a Board Observer at the Zoological Society for London, supporting their fundraising and strategy goals. Emma doesn’t like to sit still much, and in her spare time is a competitive Masters swimmer who is often found in the pool, and subsequently eating carbohydrates. > IOI role: [Director of Development](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) 2024-10 - current; Business Development and Partnerships Lead (fulltime staff position) 2024-05 - 2024-09 ### Nicky Wako Nicky joins Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) with a robust and diverse background in advocacy, diplomacy, community engagement, and social entrepreneurship to drive IOI’s mission forward. Previously, as the Advocacy and Donor Engagement Manager at GÉANT in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, she led initiatives that significantly advanced the digital transformation of research and education sectors across Africa, securing vital policy recognition and support for future projects. Nicky also brings valuable diplomatic experience from her tenure as a foreign service officer, where she adeptly represented her country in high-level diplomatic engagements and negotiated humanitarian and development aid, further honing her strategic communication and relationship-building skills with diverse stakeholders. As a passionate advocate for social entrepreneurship and community-driven initiatives, Nicky co-founded VYRE, a youth network that amplifies the voices of individual refugees and refugee-serving organizations across Europe. She is also a board member of Impact Direct, a social enterprise that connects donors with impactful NGOs. Nicky is eager to leverage her extensive experience in fundraising, partnership development, and strategic planning to support IOI’s growth and impact on the research community. When not working, Nicky loves to travel and remix recipes on the go. > IOI role: [Business Development and Partnerships Lead](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) (fulltime staff position) 2024-05 - current ### Lauren Collister Lauren Collister's approach to open infrastructure is rooted in her disciplinary background in linguistics and her professional career development in academic libraries. After receiving her PhD in Linguistics for her research on multimodal communication, she worked for 10 years in scholarly communication and library publishing. She has experience leading a diamond open access publisher, developing policy for open access funding, advising on copyright and intellectual property, organizing and advocating around labor issues in librarianship, and managing communication with editorial teams, developers, policymakers, and institutional leadership. She remains deeply connected to the linguistics community through her work on open scholarship initiatives such as the Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, the Linguistic Society of America's Statement on the Scholarly Merit and Evaluation of Open Scholarship in Linguistics, and the Tromsø Recommendations for Citation of Research Data in Linguistics. > IOI role: [Research Engagement Manager](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) 2024-10 - current; Engagement coordinator, Infrastructure (fulltime staff position) 2023-08 - 2024-09 ### Chrys Wu Over the course of an intrepid career, Chrys Wu has been a product manager, strategist, journalist, and consigliere, working with organizations including GitHub, O’Reilly Media, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, DataKind, The Knight Foundation, and The Gates Foundation. She is driven to help people at scale. Her career has placed her at the intersection of information flow, human-centered systems design, and product development. In addition to her work with established entities, she also co-founded Hacks/Hackers, which supports innovation in journalism at a local and global level; and Write/Speak/Code, a peer-led professional development network for marginalized genders in technology. > IOI role: [Product Lead](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) (fulltime staff position) 2023-08 - current ### Jerry Sellanga ![Jerry Sellanga portrait](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1wpboM8j.png =150x) Hey there! I am an Afro-optimist, passionate about changing the narrative about the African continent. I am the IOI Engagement Coordinator focused on Networks. I am responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with research networks, consortia, and alliances to ensure mutually beneficial engagements with IOI. Before joining IOI, I held a variety of communications and marketing roles in the agriculture, wildlife conservation, and social impact sectors. In my spare time, I love reading with a specific interest in geopolitics, sports, and technology. Let's connect on LinkedIn [here](https://ke.linkedin.com/in/jsellanga). > IOI role: [Engagement and Communications Coordinator / Engagement coordinator, Networks](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) (fulltime staff position) 2023-05 - current; Communications Associate 2022-10 - 2023-05 ### Katherine Skinner ![Katherine Skinner portrait](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJEIEMcbn.jpg =240x) Katherine Skinner is an open knowledge researcher-activist with deep commitments to community building, organizational resilience, and systems thinking. Her passion for facilitating, empowering, and cultivating communities led her to help found the Educopia Institute, where she provided scaffolding, training, and systems to support such collaborative groups as Library Publishing Coalition, MetaArchive Cooperative, BitCurator Consortium, C4DISC, Software Preservation Network, and Maintainers. She also co-authored Community Cultivation: A Field Guide (2018) to provide an open, practical guide to this type of work. She has co-edited three books and has authored and co-authored numerous reports and articles. She has served as Principal Investigator for 24 research projects funded by foundations and federal grants and awards on topics like education (Nexus LAB, Bitcurator), digital curation (Chronicles in Newspaper Preservation, OSSArcFlow), and scholarly communication (Library Publishing Workflows, Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure). She lives in Greensboro, NC, in the US. > IOI role: [Director of Programs](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) (fulltime staff position) 2024-10 - current; Research Lead (fulltime staff position) 2023-04 - 2024-09; [Steering Committee member](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/governance-members), 2018 - 2021 ### Kaitlin Thaney  Hi there! I’m the Executive Director of IOI, and have been with the project since March 2020. Contact me if you have any questions regarding governance, strategy and vision for the organization, business development, funding, and/or operations. I’m happy to help – and can be best reached via email or our internal Slack. (I also can speak to open licensing, movement strategy, funding strategy, and non profit management, having spent time with organizations such as Wikimedia, Mozilla, Digital Science, Creative Commons, Open Collective, and LYRASIS.) You can find my [bio here on the IOI site](https://investinopen.org/about/who-we-are/#Team) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaythaney/), as well as engage with me online [via Twitter @kaythaney](https://twitter.com/kaythaney).  > IOI role: [Executive Director](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) (fulltime staff position) 2020-03 - current ### Emmy Tsang  Hello :) I’m the Engagement Lead at IOI since Februrary 2022. I’m generally up for chats and would like to get to know you! Specifically, you are more than welcome to ask me about: - who IOI is talking to - how we are talking to them - Have we thought about working with \[org/indivudual\] And generally - community building and engagement, communications, social media, audience, events, etc. Outside of IOI, I co-lead [Open Life Science](https://openlifesci.org), run my own company, bakes occasionally, overwater my plants, and boulder 🧗‍♂️. You can reach me via Slack, email, Twitter ([@emmy_ft](https://twitter.com/emmy_ft)), [ORCiD](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9248-1280) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmy-tsang-phd-11aa793b/). > IOI role: [Director of Finance & Operations](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) (fulltime staff position) 2024-10 - current; Engagement Lead (fulltime staff position) 2022-02 - 2024-09 ### Madelyn Waterbury After graduating from University at Albany and studying communications, Madelyn discovered her passion for travel when she started a career teaching English in South East Asia. Her adventurous spirit led her to call four different countries home where she made a meaningful impact through her work with non-profit government education programs. She believes in the potential of technology education in the lives of students with minimal access to tech, specifically young women and girls. Currently Madelyn works as an administrative and executive assistant for the IOI team. Some of Madelyn’s hobbies are singing, exploring little-known areas, dancing salsa and bachata, and taking care of her plants. She currently resides in Mexico City and New York. > IOI role: [Operations Specialist and Admin Support](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) (fulltime staff position) 2024-10 - current; Administrative Assistant (contractor) 2023-05 - 2024-09 --- ## Past staff + affiliates ### Sarah Lang ![Sarah Lang portrait](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BylxcFU4h.jpg =120x) Sarah Lang’s experience spans multiple nonprofit sectors and includes business development and partner relations, strategic planning, capacity building, and new program development. Sarah was previously the Assistant Director at Upstart Co-Lab, where she launched the first coalition of impact investors dedicated to the creative economy and helped develop the first impact investing fund for the U.S. creative economy. Sarah has worked in development for major New York arts institutions, including Lincoln Center Theater and Signature Theatre. Prior to her time in New York, Sarah was a Teach for America Corps Member in St. Louis, MO, where she taught for two years at an arts-integrated magnet school in the St. Louis Public School district. She holds a Masters of Education from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and a BA in political science and theater arts from Boston College, and studied with Centro de Teatro do Oprimido in Río de Janiero, Brazil. Sarah currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. > IOI role: Business Development and Partnerships Lead (fulltime staff position) 2023-05 - 2024-01 ### Anne Britton > IOI role: Research Project Manager (fulltime staff position) 2023-01 - 2023-07; Project Coordinator (fulltime staff position) 2022-01 to 2022-12; Research Fellow 2021-09 to 2021-12 ### Asura Enkhbayar ![Asura Enkhbayar portrait](https://i.imgur.com/cLSfxGL.png =120x) Asura Enkhbayar has been working in the intersection of technology, openness, and knowledge creation within academia. While data analysis and software development have been at the core of his work, he has been recently wondering about the limits (or possibilities) of data work to contribute to issues of social justice. In some way, he might even be hoping to find some answers during his PhD on citations and power. Previously, Asura worked as a data scientist at the [ScholCommLab](https://www.scholcommlab.ca/) on a multitude of projects exploring the public dimension of scholarly communication. Before joining the ScholCommLab, he focussed on the quantitative study of science and research infrastructure at the [KnowCenter](https://www.know-center.at/en/). He has also been a developer and advocate for [Open Knowledge Maps](https://openknowledgemaps.org/). Most importantly, he is still very proud about starring in a martial arts short film (which you can find on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnFCO8jaKfA)). Asura currently resides on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations known to most as Vancouver. You can find him on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/bubblbu_) and [Github](https://github.com/Bubblbu). > IOI role: Research Data Analyst 2021-2022 ### Tania L. Hernández Hi! I am a Research Data Analyst at IOI. My areas of expertise are organizational capacity building, financial analysis, and volunteer management. At IOI, I focus on funding, cost exploration, and funding trends. Some of my public profiles: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tania-l-hern%C3%A1ndez-ph-d-13120842/), [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=buH3OlUAAAAJ&hl=en). > IOI role: Research Data Analyst 2022-06 - 2024-01 ### Bianca Kramer More about Bianca on her [company website](https://bmkramer.github.io/SesameOpenScience_site/). > IOI role: Learning Partner at our 2022 Funders Summit ### Carmela Key-Mays ![Carmela Key-Mays portrait](https://i.imgur.com/YTmvSPg.jpg =120x) Carmela received her communications degree at Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama while interning as a DJ at a local radio station and winning several accolades as a member of the Junior Toastmaster’s. She then went on to receive an advanced degree in business communications with a concentration in corporate communications and entrepreneurship. Carmela has been widowed for ten years. She organized a CityWide ‘Heart Walk’ in honor of her late husband, to encourage others to take control of their health and exercise daily. In her free time, she is most likely brunching, entertaining, and practicing her skills on crafting the perfect mimosa. She’s passionate about revitalizing marginalized communities as she founded a Career Initiative in her hometown to educate young women on business acumen, helping properly prepare them for a future in entrepreneurship and corporate careers. > IOI role: Administrative Assistant (contractor) 2022-07 to 2023-05 ### Greaterthan More about Greaterthan on their [website](https://www.greaterthan.works/). > IOI involvement: design and facilitation of the collective funding pilot during the IOI Funders Summit in 2022. ### Aboli Shete ![Portrait of Aboli Shete](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Sy3O9Vsd2.png =120x) Hi! I'm Aboli Shete, a second year Master’s student at Rochester Institute of Technology studying Human Computer Interaction. I am currently doing my Summer Co-op at Open@RIT as an UI/UX Designer and Researcher. I am glad to have received the opportunity to work with IOI through Open@RIT as a Student Researcher. My interests are UI/UX Design and Research and my career goal is to design user friendly applications that make human lives easier! Hoping to get wonderful insights, feedback and learning opportunities while working here! My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboli-shete/ > IOI role: Student Researcher 2023-06 - 2023-08 ### Daechan Kim ![Portrait of Daechan Kim](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1iXLhh83.png =120x) Hello! I'm Daechan Kim, a Student Researcher at IOI. I'm currently studying industrial design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and I'm also working as a UI/UX Designer at Open@RIT. User Experience Design has always been my passion, and I'm super excited to be joining the IOI Research team this summer. Looking forward to an amazing experience together! > IOI role: Student Researcher 2023-05 - 2023-08 ### Julia Smith More about Julia on her [website](http://julia-smith.com/). > IOI involvement: setting up and maintaining our website on Ghost in 2020 and 2022. ### Linguistics Services SA More about Linguistics Services SA on their [website](https://www.linguistic.com.ar/). > IOI involvement: simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish and French during our 2022 Funders Summit. ### Megaphone Technology Consulting More about them on their [website](https://www.megaphonetech.com/). > IOI involvement: the implementation of IOI's CiviCRM Spark in July - August 2022; ongoing IOI CiviCRM support. ### Naomi Penfold ![Naomi Penfold portrait](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1QNJyva5.png =120x) I’m a researcher and community builder in innovation in science and technology, in particular in scholarly communications. I’m currently helping IOI to understand the opportunity of preprints for science. I have a PhD in Clinical Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and have previously worked for [eLife](https://elifesciences.org/about) and [ASAPbio](https://asapbio.org/), and contributed to several open science community initiatives, including [Dryad](https://datadryad.org/), [PREreview](https://prereview.org/), [Open Life Science](https://openlifesci.org/), and [Open Con](https://www.opencon.community/). When not working, you might find me on a Scottish beach, admiring the seabirds and watching the waves. Find my full bio and reach me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomipenfold), or on Twitter [@npscience](https://twitter.com/npscience); and here is my [ORCID ID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0568-1194). > IOI role: Research Data Analyst (fulltime staff position) 2022-10 - 2023-04; Research Affiliate 2022-07 to 2022-09 ### Ravin Cline Ravin Cline earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Belhaven University.  She earned her Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic University.  Ravin spent her previous career in the Social Work and Addiction fields.  She has a passion for diversity and immigrant issues, which was birthed, in part, from her experience as a social worker.  She is currently the Founder and Executive Director of Embracing Diversity, a 501(c)3 founded serving the immigrant community. In operating the nonprofit, the importance of sectoral collaboration became clear.  With an interest in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and an intrigue toward collaborative governance, Ravin enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Texas at Dallas.  She is currently studying Public and Nonprofit Management. She is a Teaching Assistant and teaches classes entitled “Diversity in the Public Sector” and “Nonprofit Management.”  She is also a co-author of a book chapter about intersectionality and Human Resource Management during the COVID pandemic.  > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2022-05 - 2022-07 ### Richard Dunks ![Richard Dunks portrait](https://i.imgur.com/ofy4NFW.png =120x) Richard Dunks has spent 20 years helping organizations perform to their best with more and better data. Working mostly in the public and non-profit sectors, he has helped government at both the city and federal level better leverage data to achieve mission success. For the past 7 years, Richard has provided training in open data, information visualization, data analytics, and data strategy to civil servants across the country through his company [Datapolitan](https://www.datapolitan.com/), and continues working with local community groups to leverage open data for social and political change. As an adjunct professor, he has also taught graduate-level classes covering mapping with open source tools at [Pratt Institute](https://www.pratt.edu/) and machine learning at [Columbia University](https://www.columbia.edu/). He currently teaches data-informed leadership in the [Master of Public Administration program at Tulane University](https://sopa.tulane.edu/degrees-programs/masters-degrees/master-of-public-administration). He holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from [Ithaca College](https://www.ithaca.edu/) and a masters degree in Applied Urban Science and Informatics from the [Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University](https://cusp.nyu.edu/). Originally from Las Vegas, NV, he now resides in Dallas, TX with his 2 year-old son. > IOI role: Director of Research and Strategy (fulltime staff position) 2022-01 to 2023-01 ### Samala ![Samala portrait](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r13YIDW6c.png =120x) Hi there, I'm Samala (pronounced Sah-MAH-lah), a strategist and social innovator that's been building community at the intersections of technology, culture and politics for many, many moons now. Also, a mostly recovered former founder, executive director and civic technologist. During the Obama Administration, I was a frequent guest and featured speaker. Currently, I advise and work with a wide range of individuals and entities to create strategies that achieve financial and impact goals by better integrating them with one another. At IOI, I'm conducting a feasibility study on funding models for supporting the ecosystem. I'm currently a Board Director at the [Women's Foundation of California](https://womensfoundca.org/), Advisor to the [New School's Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy](https://www.newschool.edu/institute-race-power-political-economy/) and 16 years deep into a DJ residency in San Francisco where I founded and still run the West Coast's longest running 90s dance party. I attended Wharton, have a B.S. in Economics with a Concentration in Management and Marketing. I also hold a B.S. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania with a Minor in Fine Arts and Concentration in Design. I’m somewhere between proficient and conversational in Tagalog and Spanish. My personal website is in need of an update but lives [here](https://cmsamala.com/). Feel free to find me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samala) and [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/user/sama1a). Please send me all your favorite playlists.** > IOI role: Research Affiliate, 2022-07 to 2022-11. ### Saman Goudarzi > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2020 - 2022 ### Samuel Moore ![Samuel Moore portrait](https://i.imgur.com/UdbyWIi.png =120x) Dr. Samuel A. Moore is a scholarly communication specialist at Cambridge University Library and a research associate at Homerton College. His research in information studies explores the ethics and politics of scholarly communication. He has a Ph.D in Digital Humanities from King’s College London and over a decade’s experience as a publisher, educator and researcher specialising in open access, academic publishing and community governance. He is also one of the organisers of the Radical Open Access Collective. > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2022-05 - 2022-08 ### Sara Ramos & Carla Brites Santos Sara and Carla are the Founder & Host and Facilitator respectively at [Learning Day](https://learningday.community/). > IOI involvement: Designers and facilitators for the IOI Strategy Retreat in Februrary 2022; and event designers for the IOI Funders Summit in October-November 2022. ### Taimour Azizuddin ![Taimour portrait](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJ6iUvZTq.png =120x) Hi there! I'm a user researcher helping IOI conduct user testing for COIs. My background is in digital media and I enjoy helping organizations with better understanding their audiences, testing and building relevant products and services, and going to market. I have over a decade of experience spanning the startup, nonprofit, and corporate sectors. > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2022-07 - 2022-10 ### Teri Wanderi ![Teri Wanderi portait](https://i.imgur.com/HSMJbHY.jpg =120x) As of 2021, Teri Wanderi resides in Nairobi, Kenya, working in part as a Solutions Architect with startup design firm MBM Africa & Marketing Strategy Design Firm Ardy Marketing. Outside work, he enjoys playing console video games, is an aspiring Mobile Photographer on Instagram and hikes the splendid countryside that inspired the Lion King. For IOI, Teri explored the impact of governments on adoption of open infrastructure. > IOI role: Research Fellow 2022-09 - 2022-12 ### Tim Elfenbein ![Tim Elfenbein portrait](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ryNDMVsmj.png =120x) Tim Elfenbein is a researcher and publishing consultant. His research explores the plurality of norms, forms, and infrastructures within contemporary scholarly communication. Over the years, he worked as a production editor for [Duke University Press](https://www.dukeupress.edu/), the managing editor of [Cultural Anthropology](https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca), and a project manager for the [Thoth](https://thoth.pub/) metadata platform. Tim studied social and political theory at Eugene Lang College at the New School, anthropology and information studies at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and informatics at the University of California–Irvine. You can find his musings on the scholarly communication debates of the day on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/timelfen), or check out his [ORCiD](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-2183). > IOI role: Research Affiliate 2022-10 - 2022-12 ### Zack Adell More about Zack on his [website](https://www.zackadell.com/). > IOI involvement: brand refresh and brand guidelines consolidation, website and Infra Finder design, Jan - Jan 2024. --- ## See also - [CS&S staff list](https://codeforscience.org/staff/) - IOI website [Who We Are](https://investinopen.org/about/who-we-are/) page - IOI [core team bios](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18fpFSvImgvk-romN9VPcF3S2si6tTEZdxEhoCt1pC54/edit#heading=h.vsvoto2kwuwy), January 2022 - IOI [job descriptions](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/job-descriptions) - Archived copy of this page (via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/who-is-who --- This page first published: 2022-07-27 ###### tags: `about-us` --- <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is made available under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. 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