Katherine Skinner

Katherine Skinner is an open knowledge researcher-activist whose work sits at the intersection of community building, organizational resilience, and systems change. At IOI, she leads programs focused on advancing open, interoperable infrastructure for research and scholarship — work that draws on two decades of experience designing the conditions under which collaborative communities thrive.

Before joining IOI, Katherine co-founded and directed the Educopia Institute for more than 15 years, where she helped build and sustain a wide range of collaborative initiatives in digital preservation, scholarly communication, and cultural heritage. She co-authored Community Cultivation: A Field Guide (2018) and has served as Principal Investigator on 25 funded research projects spanning education, digital curation, and scholarly communication.

She holds a PhD from Emory University (2005) and has authored three books and numerous reports and articles.