Lauren Collister

Lauren Collister is primarily responsible for managing engagement and communications related to IOI’s research and consulting work, including Infra Finder. Her approach to open infrastructure is rooted in her disciplinary background in linguistics and her professional career development in academic libraries. After receiving her PhD in Linguistics for her research on multimodal communication, she worked for 10 years in scholarly communication, with a focus on library publishing and intellectual property. Her experience includes leading a diamond open access publisher, developing policy for open access funding, and organising related to labour issues in librarianship and higher education. 

Lauren has been connected to the linguistics community through her work on open scholarship initiatives such as the Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, the Linguistic Society of America's Statement on the Scholarly Merit and Evaluation of Open Scholarship in Linguistics, and the Tromsø Recommendations for Citation of Research Data in Linguistics. She serves on advisory boards for the Mapping Diamond Open Access Journals project, the eLinguistics Foundation, and the Institute for Spatial History Innovation. 

You can find out more about Lauren's research and publications by visiting her ORCID profile, and connect with her on LinkedIn. Lauren works from Pittsburgh, PA, USA, the ancestral land of the Adena culture, Hopewell culture, and Monongahela peoples, who were joined by refugees of other tribes (including the Delaware, Shawnee, and Haudenosaunee) who were driven from their homelands by colonizers.