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== Brian Mathews ==
Dean and University Librarian of the Carol Grotnes Belk Library, Elon University
Brian Mathews is Library leader, administrator, and innovator whose career in academic libraries spans multiple decades. He maintains a driving interest in helping research libraries evolve — and the related structures & culture that enables successful transformation. Mathews explores professional interests in the way people engage with information: in his words, their “personal knowledge management.” Mathews also was the co-founder of the Carnegie Mellon University Library’s Robotics Project, and he served as the principal investigator on a grant from Sloan Foundation related to the formation of the Digital Robotics Archive.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mathews-b156712/ LinkedIn]
[https://www.brianmathews.io/ Website]
[mailto:bmathews3@elon.edu email]
== Shoshana Zuboff ==
Shoshana Zuboff is a retired professor from the Harvard Business School, and is "a scholar, writer, and activist" and "is the author of three major books, each signaling a new epoch in technological society. Her most recent work, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019), synthesizes her decades of research and thinking to reveal a new economic era in which once private human experience is secretly invaded, extracted as data, and exploited for hidden processes of manufacturing, prediction, and sales." Her research is particularly important as libraries and technologists grapple with the emerging role of AI in the information landscape.
[https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/shoshana/ Website About]
[https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/contact/ Contact]
== Emily Laird ==
Emily Laird is the AI Integration Technologist at UW-Stout, where she collaborates in support of campus-wide efforts to integrate artificial intelligence into education, research, and industry collaboration. With expertise in AI foundations, generative AI, AI literacy, and industry integration, she works closely with faculty, staff, and students to advance AI adoption and support ethical, effective implementation of emerging AI technologies.
Emily is the host of Generative AI 101, a podcast dedicated to supporting AI literacy for all. She is also a national speaker [and an entertaining one!] on AI literacy and AI integration, engaging industry leaders, educators, and policymakers in discussions on the changing role of AI in business, education, and society. (from University Profile)
[https://www.uwstout.edu/directory/lairde University Profile]
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird/ LinkedIn]
[mailto:lairde@uwstout.edu email]
== Brandon Nightingale ==
Black Press Manager of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center of Howard University
Brandon Nightingale is a highly experienced professional in the fields of project management and academia, currently serving as a Senior Project Manager at Howard University since May 2022. Previously, Brandon held multiple roles, including Professor, University Archivist, and Assistant Archivist at Bethune-Cookman University from April 2019 to December 2022, and worked as a Public History Contractor with the National Park Service focusing on African American history at Cumberland Island National Seashore from December 2020 to April 2022. Educational credentials include a Master of Arts in Public History and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Central Florida and Florida State University, respectively, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Central Florida. Currently, Brandon is pursuing a PhD in History at Howard University, expected to conclude in December 2026.
[https://gs.howard.edu/sway/jun23_1 Bio]
[mailto:brandon.nightingale@howard.edu email]
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