Our Team

Curtis Brundy

Curtis Brundy is the dean of libraries at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he leads efforts to advance openness, integrate emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence—and foster organizational excellence across the library's services. His nationally recognized work focuses on transforming scholarly publishing through equitable access, price transparency, and sustainable models. He is dedicated to building future-ready libraries that support innovation and meet the evolving needs of our research and learning communities.  

cbrundy @ umass.edu 

Jill Emery

Jill Emery is the collection development and management librarian at Portland State University Library and has over 30 years of academic library experience. She has held leadership positions in ALA ALCTS (precursor to ALA CORE), ER&L, and NASIG. She currently serves on the COUNTERmetrics Executive Committee and Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) Executive Committee and Operations & Collections Committee. Jill is the publications officer for Insights: the UKSG journal along with being a senior editor for Katina. Her co-authored book is Techniques of Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open. 

jemery @ pdx.edu

Kate McCready

Kate McCready is the program director for open publishing at the Big Ten Academic Alliance's Center for Library Programs where she works to develop collective action strategies to "advance increasingly open, more equitable scholarship", the guiding star of the libraries of the Alliance. To solve shared problems and bring operations to scale, Kate develops programs that strengthen academy-owned open access publishing. She also provides leadership to programs that both support the creation of open access materials and also facilitate investments in sustainable open access content and infrastructure. Kate has served in a variety of library leadership roles and has expertise in program design and assessment, scholarly publishing, and open access infrastructure.   

kate.mccready @ btaa.org

Senior Editor, Future of Work

Search in progress; announcement coming soon.