Knowledge Futures
Amy Brand, PhD, is currently the Director and Publisher at The MIT Press and a Co-Founder at Knowledge Futures Group. With vast experience in various roles in the academic and research industry, Amy has held positions such as VP Academic and Research Relations at Digital Science, Assistant Provost at Harvard University, and Director of Business and Product Development at CrossRef. Amy's educational background includes a PhD in Cognitive Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Linguistics from Barnard College.
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Knowledge Futures
Knowledge Futures builds public digital infrastructure that enables communities to publish documents and data more effectively. Knowledge Futures is an independent nonprofit organization powered by academic, industry, and advocacy groups. Together we build and support products and protocols to make knowledge open and accessible to all. Founded in 2018 as a partnership between the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab, Knowledge Futures was created to build sustainable tools and technologies for libraries, presses, museums, activist organizations, researchers, and others whose knowledge work seeks to serve collective understanding and the public. What began as a handful of grad students working on publishing tools grew to an organization focused on addressing the systemic challenges faced by public-oriented groups beholden to infrastructure that is designed with misaligned incentives and unjust power dynamics. In September 2019 we formally organized as an independent 501c3 nonprofit. Today, we are committed to building a full-stack of technology protocols and products that demonstrate an effective, equitable, and sustainable knowledge economy is possible. We work with partners to design for interoperability and to catalyze a distributed ecosystem of development.