About Me
I am an experienced leader in open research and publishing infrastructure with a proven track record of developing collaborative, community-driven initiatives. I specialise in long-form scholarship (books and more) and non-traditional scholarly outputs, prioritising experimentation and creativity in pursuit of more expansive publishing futures.
Experience
Founder & Director, Radish Press (2024-present)
Open Monograph Press Coordinator, Public Knowledge Project (2024-present)
Community Development Manager, Knowledge Commons (Michigan State University) (2022-2024)
Assistant Director, Rebus Foundation (2018-2022)
Director of Open Research, Rebus Foundation (2021-2022)
Project Lead, Rebus Ink (2019-2022)
Project Lead, Rebus Community (2017-2020)
Client & Product Manager, Pressbooks (2016-2018)
Media Researcher, iSentia (2013-2016)
Academic Administrator, Massey University (2015)
Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology (2012)
Education
Master of Publishing, Simon Fraser University (2015-2016)
Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours), Auckland University of Technology (2008-2012)
Grants
Rebus Ink: An Open Platform for Scholarly Reading and Knowledge Management, Andrew W.Mellon Foundation (US$762,000)
Rebus Ink was a digital research workflow application that helped researchers read, ideate, and write more efficiently and systematically. It connected a scholar’s reading—including books, journal articles, multimedia, and web content—with organizational, note-taking and sense-making tools. As an open-source tool with an open Application Programming Interface (API), Rebus Ink aimed to connect disparate pieces of the existing research tool ecosystem, allowing users to execute more streamlined workflows. The project was committed to following open standards, and prioritizing user privacy and control. In parallel, it advocated for innovative digital research and publishing practices, and behaved as good actors in the scholarly communications ecosystem, working closely with individual scholars and researchers, as well as libraries, aggregators, and publishers.
The Community Publishing Garden: centering grassroots publishing initiatives in the open book publishing system, The Open Book Collective Development Fund (£7500)
As open book publishing has evolved from its academic roots, greater interest and opportunity exists to facilitate publishing from and for non-academic sources. However, the diverse forms of knowledge emerging from grassroots communities (projects and programmes that are defined by the wants and needs of the people involved) are not well served by existing open book publishing models, which remain grounded in academic systems and their guiding structures. Given the different audiences, expectations and measures of impact for grassroots communities, their contributions require radical solutions that are driven by their needs and goals.
The Community Publishing Gardencreates a model of participatory exchange for publishing practitioners and community members developing new models for publishing that are fit-for-purpose. Together, participants weave a collaborative framework to serve as a supporting structure for ongoing work, including shared language, definitions, environmental mapping and community-engaged practices. This work involves decentering the scholarly standard, while adopting and adapting relevant structures from open scholarship, and, where needed, creating new practices that widen the adoption of open publishing practices.
Training
Headwaters Facilitate for Freedom Fundamentals (2024)
Facilitate for Freedom Fundamentals Training lays the groundwork for anyone interested in anti-oppression facilitation. Through group discussion and hands-on exercises, the workshop introduces the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance’s facilitation pedagogy, and is a deep dive into two of our key principles: removing barriers to full participation and yes to Principled Struggle.
BPX, Raw Signal Group (2022)
Comprehensive, online management training for individuals and growing teams. Effective management is a set of discrete, learnable skills. BPX introduces, dissects, and understands the individual components. Over six weeks, it stitch the pieces together, equipping participants with a robust toolkit, including everything needed to grow and develop a team.