Appendix B

Biographies of Speakers and Moderators

LORETTA PARHAM (Workshop Chair) is chief executive officer and library director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, an independent entity operating as the single library shared by its four member institutions—Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, and Spelman College. She is responsible for the strategic agenda transforming the Woodruff Library into the best choice for information for its community. With more than 30 years in the profession, her experience includes director of the Hampton University Library; deputy director of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; district chief of the Chicago Public Library; and other public service positions with the Chicago Public Schools and the City Colleges of Chicago. An active leader, scholar, and engaging speaker, Ms. Parham was named a 2004 “Mover & Shaker” by Library Journal and was also honored as the 2017 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She has authored articles on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) libraries and archives, and is co-editor of the book Achieving Diversity: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. Ms. Parham is co-founder and past chair of the HBCU Library Alliance, past chair of the Georgia Humanities Council, former board member of ACRL, the Wayne State University School of Library Science Advisory Board, and past treasurer of the Oberlin Group. Ms. Parham holds a master of library science degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a bachelor of science in communications from Southern Illinois

University, Carbondale. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors of EDUCAUSE and EDUCOPIA.

THOMAS KALIL (Roundtable Co-Chair) is chief innovation officer at Schmidt Futures. In this role, Mr. Kalil leads initiatives to harness technology for societal challenges, improve science policy, and identify and pursue 21st-century moonshots. Prior to Schmidt Futures, Mr. Kalil served in the White House for two presidents (Obama and Clinton), helping to design and launch national science and technology initiatives in areas such as nanotechnology, the BRAIN initiative, data science, materials by design, robotics, commercial space, high-speed networks, access to capital for startups, high-skill immigration, STEM education, learning technology, startup ecosystems, and the federal use of incentive prizes. From 2001 to 2008, Mr. Kalil was special assistant to the chancellor for science and technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Kalil received a B.A. in political science and international economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and completed graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

KEITH R. YAMAMOTO (NAS/NAM) (Roundtable Co-Chair) is University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) vice chancellor for science policy and strategy, director of precision medicine for UCSF, and professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF. He is a leading researcher investigating transcriptional regulation by nuclear receptors, which mediate the actions of essential hormones and cellular signals; he uses mechanistic and systems approaches to pursue these problems in pure molecules, cells, and whole organisms. He has led or served on numerous national committees focused on public and scientific policy, public understanding and support of biological research, and science education; he chairs the Coalition for the Life Sciences, and sits on the National Academy of Medicine Council and the National Academies Division of Earth and Life Studies Advisory Committee. As chair of the Board on Life Sciences, he created the study committee that produced Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease, the report that enunciated the precision medicine concept, and he has helped to lead efforts in the White House, in Congress, in Sacramento, and at UCSF to implement it. He has chaired or served on many committees that oversee training and the biomedical workforce, research funding, and the process of peer review and the policies

that govern it at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the advisory board for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the board of directors of Research! America. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

PHILIP E. BOURNE is the founding dean of the School of Data Science and professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA). From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Bourne was the associate director for data science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role he led the Big Data to Knowledge Program, coordinating access to and analyzing biomedical research from across the globe and making it available to scientists and researchers. While there, he was also responsible for governance and strategic planning activities for data and knowledge management, and established multiple trainings in data science. He has done exceptional work to make biomedical research accessible, as well as to advance the field of data science. Prior to his time at the NIH, Dr. Bourne spent 20 years on the faculty at the University of California, San Diego, eventually becoming associate vice chancellor of innovation and industrial alliances. He is a highly respected and oft-cited scholar who brings a wealth of experience to UVA.

TATIANA BRYANT is the research librarian for digital humanities, history, and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine, libraries. She holds an M.P.A. in international public and nonprofit administration, management, and policy from New York University; an M.S. in information and library science from Pratt Institute; and a B.A. in history from Hampton University. She has been a SPARC OpenCon Berlin fellow and a Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies fellow through the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Institute. Her research includes studies on gender identity and performance in library work as well as perceptions of open access publishing among faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color. She is a co-editor of the forthcoming volume Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries (ACRL Press).

MICHAEL CROW became the 16th president of Arizona State University (ASU) on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities, an institution

that combines the highest levels of academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact—a model he terms the “New American University.” During his tenure, the university more than quadrupled research expenditures, completed an unprecedented infrastructure expansion, and was named the nation’s most innovative school by U.S. News & World Report in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Dr. Crow was previously executive vice provost of Columbia University, where he also was professor of science and technology policy in the School of International and Public Affairs. He played the lead role in the creation of, and served as the founding director of, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and in 1998 founded the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, dedicated to linking science and technology to optimal social, economic, and environmental outcomes. An elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Public Administration, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations and U.S. Department of Commerce National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, he is the author of books and articles analyzing science and technology policy and the design of knowledge enterprises and higher education institutions and systems. Dr. Crow received his Ph.D. in public administration (science and technology policy) from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

LAUREN COLLISTER is chair of the Committee on Scholarly Communication in Linguistics at the Linguistic Society of America. Dr. Collister is also the director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing at the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. She oversees all of the university’s open access publishing, repository, copyright, altmetrics, and scholarly communication work. Broadly, she is an advocate for open scholarship, and her work is to advance the open scholarship movement. Her research interests in linguistics include discourse markers and deixis and how those intersect with linguistic innovation in online spaces. She is a member of the Linguistics Data Interest Group for the Research Data Alliance and also works as an advocate for good scholarly communication practice within the field of linguistics. Dr. Collister has a Ph.D. in sociolinguistics and has since worked to help linguists share their research openly, including advancing the data citation and sharing practices of that field.

JULIA STEWART LOWNDES is senior fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) of the University of Cali-

fornia, Santa Barbara, and founding director of Openscapes. Dr. Lowndes champions kinder, better science in less time through open data science and teamwork. As a marine data scientist, 2019 Mozilla fellow, and senior fellow at NCEAS, she has more than 7 years designing and leading programs to empower science teams with skillsets and mindsets for reproducible research, empowering researchers with existing open tools and communities. She has been building communities of practice in this space since 2013 with the Ocean Health Index, after earning her Ph.D. at Stanford University studying drivers and impacts of Humboldt squid in a changing climate. Dr. Lowndes is a Carpentries instructor, lead creator of the Ocean Health Index’s open data science training, and a co-founder of Eco-Data-Science and R-Ladies Santa Barbara.

EKEMINI RILEY is the managing director of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP), a research-funding initiative that coordinates targeted basic research and resources to uncover the roots of Parkinson’s disease. Prior to ASAP, Dr. Riley was a director at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy where she helped shape and co-direct their medical research practice. She designed and facilitated several multisector think-tank sessions to inform the strategic deployment of philanthropic capital, crafted research programs, and seeded multifunder collaboration. Dr. Riley led the development and launch of ASAP, as well as the Gilbert Family Foundation’s Gene Therapy and Vision Restoration Initiatives. Her work also laid the foundation for Play It Forward Pittsburgh, an organ donation awareness campaign. Dr. Riley completed her B.A. in natural sciences from the Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. in molecular medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Her doctoral research focused on gene regulation of an endogenous protease inhibitor and its role in innate immunity and tumor suppression.

SANJAY SRIVASTAVA is a professor and undergraduate education chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon and director of the Personality and Social Dynamics Lab. He teaches courses on several topics, including introductory psychology, motivation and emotion, social and personality psychology, and advanced statistics. Prior to coming to the University of Oregon, Dr. Srivastava was a postdoctoral research scientist at Stanford University. His research focuses on how personality affects and is affected by the social environment. This includes research on interpersonal perception, emotions, personality dynamics and development, and the

psychology of online societies. He received his B.A. in psychology from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

CAMILLE THOMAS is the scholarly communications librarian at Florida State University. She currently leads initiatives to support students, faculty, and staff to engage with new modes of research and teaching, including open access and open education. She has worked as a SPARC fellow, on public interest partners and enhancing discovery for open educational resources. Ms. Thomas received her master’s degree in library and information studies from Florida State University in 2015 and a B.A. in creative writing and journalism from the University of Central Florida in 2012. Her research includes data in libraries, early-career leadership and management, user experience and open access, and open education.