PEGI Project Announces Advisory Board
The PEGI Project Steering Committee is pleased to welcome the following experts and innovators to the PEGI Project Advisory Board for a one-year term beginning October 1, 2020:
Heather Christenson
PROGRAM OFFICER FOR COLLECTIONS, HATHITRUST
Heather Christenson is the Program Officer for Collections at HathiTrust. In her previous role at the California Digital Library she provided collaborative leadership for large scale digital content initiatives and oversaw mass digitization of the University of California’s physical collections including projects across the UC libraries in partnership with the Internet Archive, Google, and Microsoft.
Gregory T. Eow
PRESIDENT, THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Greg 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.
Ed Garcia
LIBRARY DIRECTOR, CRANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, RHODE ISLAND
Ed Garcia is the Library Director at the Cranston Public Library in Cranston, RI, a position he has held since 2012. Ed is a proud graduate of the University of Rhode Island and received his MLIS in 2008. He is currently serving as a member of the Executive Board of the American Library Association and is a 3 term Councilor-at-Large on the ALA Council. He is a former ALA Emerging Leader and Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Ed is very involved in library advocacy and is the current Legislative Action Chair for the Rhode Island Library Association. He is happily married with 16 year old twin sons.
Debbie Rabina
PROFESSOR, THE PRATT INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
Debbie Rabina’s academic career is devoted to increasing equitable access to information. Her projects include reference service to incarcerated people, End of Term harvesting, and other research projects. She holds the rank of Professor at Pratt Institute, where she teaches courses at the intersection of information and policy, including Information Policy, Government Information and Information and Human Rights. Her roles and honors at Pratt include Library and Information Science coordinator, Executive Committee of the Academic Senate, and Distinguished teacher. Debbie is a past member of the Depository Library Council
Vicky Reich
CO-FOUNDER AND EMERITUS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LOCKSS PROGRAM, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Vicky Reich, senior librarian emeritus at Stanford University, volunteers with the Internet Archive, the PEGI project, and others who are working to preserve inconvenient to obtain yet important literature. Vicky’s focus has been (and will continue to be) to rally libraries and librarians to fulfill their mission as memory organizations. Her unique contributions while at Stanford University include: the Stanford Digital Library Project, HighWire Press, the LOCKSS Program, and the CLOCKSS Archive.
Daniel Schuman
POLICY DIRECTOR, DEMAND PROGRESS & DEMAND PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND
Daniel leads Demand Progress and Demand Progress Education Fund’s efforts on issues that concern government transparency, accountability, ethics, and reform; protecting civil liberties; and strengthening the legislative branch. He co-founded the Congressional Data Coalition, which brings together organizations from across the political spectrum to advocate for a tech-savvy Congress; created the First Branch Forecast, a website that contains in-depth research on Congress and a weekly newsletter; built EveryCRSReport, a website containing all CRS Reports; co-directs FutureCongress, a collaboration on improving science and technology expertise in the legislative branch; and runs the Transparency RoundTable, which brings together 50+ organizations from across the political spectrum to collaborate on transparency issues.
Daniel directs the Advisory Committee on Transparency, which supports the work of the Congressional Transparency Caucus, and was a fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Daniel has testified before Congress on numerous occasions and has been interviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, Fox News, C-SPAN, and elsewhere.
Daniel was instrumental in drafting and enacting legislation including the DATA Act, FOIA modernization, public access to CRS Reports, publication of legislative information as data, obtaining a study on restarting the Office of Technology Assessment, and dozens of House rules changes (including the creation of the Office of Whistleblower Ombudsman).
He is a nationally recognized expert on federal transparency, accountability, and congressional capacity. He previously worked as policy director at CREW; policy counsel at the Sunlight Foundation; and as a legislative attorney with the Congressional Research Service. Daniel graduated cum laude from Emory University School of Law.
Michelle Trumbo
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LEGAL INFORMATION PRESERVATION ALLIANCE
Michelle Trumbo is the Executive Director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA), a non-profit consortium of law libraries undertaking projects to preserve print and digital legal information. Prior to joining LIPA, she was Head of Reference and Instructional Services at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and formerly Electronic Services Librarian at the Jerome Hall Law Library at Indiana University in Bloomington. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington and J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law.
We are grateful to the Advisory Board for their commitment to help us define our next steps forward in developing inclusive networks committed to preserving electronic government information.