Daniel Lynds, Davidson College

Daniel Lynds is an Instructional Designer with a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Masters in Education Technology. Daniel collaborates with people on making their work as impactful and open as possible. His work centers around digital storytelling, social network analysis, open education, and cultural theory. As an editor at Hybrid Pedagogy, a critical journal/community/conversation/study, Daniel finds himself constantly engaged with scholarship from international voices focused on the connectedness of learning, teaching, and technology in culture. This work feeds his interests in collaboratively building sense making in the humanities and beyond. He believes in people and their ability to critically examine their paths in the ever complex landscape of knowledge abundance. Daniel is also an interdisciplinary artist and general noise maker. Many of his creations can be found at daniellynds.com.

Adam Nemeroff, Dartmouth College – Co-lead

Adam works as a Learning Designer at Dartmouth College. He works across a variety of innovative projects with faculty and campus partners in the areas of educational technologies, course redesigns, experiential learning projects, and issues of accessibility and inclusivity in the classroom. Adam is a co-host of Teach with Care (also on your podcast app of choice), a collaborative podcast on issues of inclusivity in teaching and learning.

Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez, CSU Channel Islands

Kristi is the Instructional Technologist- Accessibility Lead and FIT Studio Coordinator on the Teaching & Learning Innovations team at California State University, Channel Islands. She has worked in higher education for the past 7 years and in addition to campus responsibilities, she earned her M.A. in Learning Technologies at Pepperdine University.

She is a passionate advocate of accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to meet the needs of a diverse campus community.  Her local efforts include supporting and guiding faculty as they explore teaching and learning with and through technology, including the development of a week-long facilitated “workout” around accessibility. The 5 Day Accessibility Workout is available in Canvas Commons and includes a digital badge. To engage and contribute to a broader community, Kristi actively participates in and presents at Accessing Higher Ground (AHG), CSUN Assistive Technology Conferences, and OLC Innovate.

Chuck Pearson, Tusculum College

Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Tusculum College. Your geek at large. Science teaching and advising specialist. Current teaching focus in introductory chemistry, introductory physics, physical sciences for science literacy, and the odd biochemistry and physical chemistry course. Strong history in health professions advising, but will obsess over a college catalog with the best of them.

Ed-tech nerd (and raving Moodle fan, but facing the ethical challenges of technology and asking questions about opening the traditional and online classrooms). Education policy obsessive. Eclectic music listener. Native of the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, adopted son of Central Appalachia.

Sundi Richard, Davidson College, Co-Lead

Sundi works to create an innovative and supportive environment to promote student and faculty digital dexterity and advance thoughtful integration of technologies in teaching, learning, and scholarship at Davidson College. Interested in empowering students to be active citizens in their online and offline worlds, Sundi explores digital identity, networking, and online interaction. She is part of an ongoing conversation in higher education about digital citizenship #digciz.

Madeline (Maddie) Shellgren, Michigan State, Escape Room Lead

Maddie the one with the batman and dinosaur tattoos. Starting this year as a PhD student in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Maddie spent the last six years at Michigan State as a PhD student in Linguistics. She devotes a lot of time to thinking about professional identities within higher education, inclusion, equity, and accessibility, language and identity, pedagogy, educational technology, and a bunch of other things. That said, Maddie also spends a lot of time trying to figure out which local stores sell the best donuts (extensive research and data collection still underway) and which parks provide the best dog-walking experiences. When not teaching, being a grad student, or working for either the College of Arts and Letters, the Graduate School, or the Writing Center, you can find her coaching with the MSU Varsity Rowing team, working as a Simulated Patient for the College of Human Medicine, or eating cannolis at Roma Bakery.