Cristina Mussinelli is Secretary General of Fondazione LIA, non-profit organization – set up by the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) and the Italian Blind Union (UICI) – that promotes the culture of accessibility in the publishing field and has received numerous international awards as an innovative service of excellence.
She is also co-chair of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Digital Publishing Business Group, member of the Board of and chair of the Accessibility Working Group of EDRLab (European Digital Reading Lab), member of the Accessibility Steering Committee of ABC Consortium of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation), the European Inclusive Forum Steering Committee of Daisy Consortium, the Accessibility Working Group of FEP (Federation of European Publishers) and UK Publishers Association and invited expert of the section ISO OT UNI / CT 014 / SC 04 “Automation and documentation”.
Melody (Zhuxin) Zhang is the Publisher at Wiley, managing a portfolio of scientific journals in the health sciences field. Her role involves spearheading the launch of new open access journals in close collaboration with influential local societies, hospitals and universities. She holds degrees from Renmin University of China and the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is currently based in Beijing, China.
Mitchell Bakos is an innovative technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry.
He is an accomplished solutions architect supporting business strategy through innovative technology and strategic risk management.
In his current position at the American Chemical Society, he is responsible for the development and implementation of mission-critical products for their Publications Division including AI-driven search, recommendation, and language editing.
Rebecca Cook is Associate Director, Copyright and Permissions, at Wiley.
Rebecca leads Wiley’s global team responsible for permissions, reprints, collective management organization alliances, and clinical outcome assessment licensing.
Rebecca represents Wiley on a number of industry working groups, contributing to policy and discussions surrounding copyright, licensing strategy, transformative business models, and the future of rights management in publishing.
Joslyn Chaiprasert-Paguio (she/her) is the Senior Acquisitions Editor responsible for science titles in Psychology and Translational Neurosciences at Elsevier, a leader in information and analytics for customers across the global research and health ecosystems. Her focus includes social, developmental, and clinical psychology as well as translational neuroscience including neurology and neurodegenerative diseases.
Joslyn has over 15 years of publishing experience in a variety of roles covering multiple product types. She is well respected by her authors, editors, and peers for her proven track record of successful publications and strong relationships with researchers and clinicians. She has represented Elsevier at scientific conferences and author workshops. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of California Riverside. She currently resides in Menifee, CA.v
John W. Warren (he/him) is Director and Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Publishing, George Washington University. He formerly held the positions of Director, George Mason University Press; Marketing and Sales Director, Georgetown University Press; Director of Marketing, RAND Corporation; and Marketing Manager at Sage Publications and Fondo de Cultura Económica. He has a master’s degree in international management from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego.
He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, a frequent speaker at international publishing conferences, and author of numerous articles about digital publishing as well as the Impact Module for the Library Publishing Curriculum. He is a classical guitarist and composer, and a contributor to Classical Guitar and Acoustic Guitar magazines.
He is the founder and publisher of The GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing, co-organizer of the GW Ethics in Publishing Conference, and founder and co-organizer of the Student Journal Symposium.
Jessica Anne Carter (she/her) is the Publishing Assistant at University of Toronto Press, handling metadata, royalty support, eBook distribution, and various other administrative tasks. She obtained a BA in Honours English with a Major in Classical Studies from Nipissing University in North Bay, ON, Canada. She then received her MA in English Literature (Public Texts) from Trent University in Peterborough, ON, and a Graduate Certificate in Creative Book Publishing from Humber College in Toronto, ON.
Before working at UTP, Jessica interned at Cormorant Books, Inc., an independent publisher located in Toronto, and then was the Publishing Assistant and Junior Editor at Telegraph Road Entertainment, specializing in children’s educational workbook and activity book publishing. Based in Toronto, Jessica is an avid reader, casual knitter, and lover of musicals.
After working in an academic library providing access services and supervising student workers for four years, AnaMaria pivoted to publishing. Since this move, she’s been working at De Gruyter, within their Publisher Partner Program. When AnaMaria started at De Gruyter in 2017, the Publisher Partner team only had one full-time member on the team; the Program has since grown to nine full-time employees, with a portfolio of over 35 presses. AnaMaria is responsible for supporting the integration, availability, and discoverability of these University Presses’ large portfolios, while also providing sales support to the North American library market.
In addition to AnaMaria’s work with these distribution services, she is also passionate about topics concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion in the publishing industry. At De Gruyter, AnaMaria helped bring to life an internal DEI committee, known as IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism Lived). This volunteer committee includes members from both the home office in Germany as well as colleagues within the US, and members are always looking for ways to engage other regions, and underrepresented groups, as well. She served as Co-Chair of IDEAL for three years. Most recently, AnaMaria joined STM’s Social Responsibility’s Committee Task & Finish Group focused on EDI and is looking forward to collaborating with and learning from other members within the industry.
Jade’s interest in medical sciences kickstarted at the Royal Veterinary College where she studied Bioveterinary Science. From there, she volunteered at several London-based news outlets before travelling to Chengdu, China to complete a 3-month internship.
Within her publishing career she worked as a Commissioning Editor and Digital Editor. Her current role, Senior Editor of Oncology Central, has allowed her to continue her passion for furthering the reach of cancer research.
Jennifer is Executive Director of Dryad, the open data publishing platform and community committed to the sharing and reuse of all research data.
Since 2005, she has worked with scientists, funders, publishers, libraries, developers and others to accelerate discovery through transformations in research communication, research culture, and technological infrastructure.
Prior to Dryad, Jennifer was Head of Open Research Communication and founding Head of Marketing and Communications for eLife, a non-profit and research funder-backed initiative to transform science publishing, and Director of Programs and Operations for SPARC, where she helped advocate for open data and the introduction of the first U.S. public access policies.
She is former Chair of the Board of Directors for OASPA (the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association), a member of the Board of Directors for DataCite and Advisory Board for the Data Curation Network.
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