Grants & Talks
Grants
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Lessons for Librarians in Open Science (IMLS Grant)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Principal Investigator
$237,000 IMLS National Leadership Grant to develop open science curriculum for library professionals.
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UC Open Source Program Office Network (Sloan Grant)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Co-Principal Investigator (UCLA Lead)
$1.85M Sloan Foundation grant to build a UC-wide OSPO network.
Selected Talks
2026
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Championing Data Literacy Through Networked Communities: Multi-Campus Carpentries Models
IASSIST 2026 (Online)
Panelist
Panel on how multi-campus Carpentries networks enable distributed instruction and peer mentoring across institutions — comparing the UC Carpentries model (10 campuses, 500+ annual learners) with SUNY and Northeast efforts, and how federated governance amplifies data literacy. With Scott Peterson (Buffalo), Jose Nino Muriel and Kristi Liu (UC Santa Barbara).
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Open Source as Institutional Infrastructure: Lessons from the UC OSPO Network
IASSIST 2026 (Online)
Speaker
How the UC OSPO Network treats open source as institutional infrastructure — what it takes to fund, govern, and sustain the open source software that research depends on across a multi-campus system.
2022
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Radical Partnerships: Expanding Academic Collaboration in Data and Computational Sciences
CNI Spring 2022 Membership Meeting, San Diego, CA
Presenter (with S. Labou, H. Dekker, J. Herndon)
Panel presentation on building non-traditional research partnerships between library data services and academic units across institutions.
2019
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The Carpentries: Building Local and Global Communities of Practice to Improve Data Skills
AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, CA
Invited Speaker
Invited talk on how The Carpentries model builds durable, community-driven data skills infrastructure at local and global scale.
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From a Data Archive to Data Science: Supporting Current Research
IASSIST 2019, Sydney, Australia
Presenter
Presentation on how library data services have evolved from passive archival roles to active computational research partnerships.
2018
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Library Carpentry: Software and Data Skills for Library Professionals
European Library Automation Group (ELAG) 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
Presenter
Presentation on Library Carpentry — the curriculum, community, and instructor training model for building data and software skills in library professionals.
2017
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Library Carpentry and the Path to Certified Instruction
csv,conf, Portland, OR
Speaker
Talk at csv,conf on training librarians as certified Carpentries instructors and scaling library data education.
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Positioning Libraries to Support Data Science
LIASA Annual Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
Keynote speaker
Keynote at the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) annual conference.