ITHAKA Labs is a team of builders, researchers, designers, and problem-solvers who believe that access to education and knowledge can change lives.
ITHAKA Labs operates at the forefront of ITHAKA’s mission to expand access to education and knowledge. Working with foundations, colleges and universities, libraries, and publishers, we discover opportunities, design solutions, and incubate and scale services that change people’s lives through learning.
ITHAKA Labs believes that you can learn more by doing and building than by talking. We believe in the value of working with others to build something greater than what either could achieve on their own. We believe there is a tremendous amount that users can teach us if we know how to listen. We believe in the power of the sticky note.
ITHAKA Labs believes in openness. Wherever possible we make our prototypes, discoveries, code, and data openly available for the communities that we both work within and learn from. We support open infrastructure and sustainability models that optimize for access.
ITHAKA Labs believes in expanding access to the transformative powers of education. Our work is dedicated to making knowledge more available to all, and we really do mean all. We believe that we can’t build a solution for a community without welcoming members of that community from the start.
I help the team find, describe and realize its vision. I also hold controversial opinions about the Oxford comma.
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Lead Software EngineerWhen I'm not developing a running habit, reading something, or obeying my cats, I write software in the education & cultural heritage worlds.
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Software EngineerWorking on the Transfer Explorer tool as a fullstack SWE. Board game / video game enjoyer & lego collector.
Let’s change the game in credit mobility at the national level!
I traded gallery walls for git commits and kept the same job, really: expanding access to information.
I wear multiple hats as designer, facilitator, user researcher, and tallest person at JSTOR Labs (ever).
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Senior Software EngineerI like to solve problems with code, pixels, and product thinking, mostly in and around Transfer Explorer.
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Manager, Discovery and ResearchUser researcher, prototype tinkerer, and design-thinking coach helping the team make smarter bets.
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Software EngineerI manage data and data pipelines for the Transfer Explorer team.
Data engineer on the Transfer Explorer project. Always thinking about data, processes, and infrastructure.
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Senior Technical Project Manager, Transfer ExplorerOnce I designed software, now I design software delivery systems. Send pictures of dogs.
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Senior UX DesignerSr. UX Designer at ITHAKA Labs working on Transfer Explorer. Music producer, lifelong learner, and human to Great Dane Orion.
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Senior Software EngineerI make software to help incarcerated people access library resources, which are probably my favorite resources.
Literal cat-herder which comes in handy when working on JSTOR Access in Prison.
ITHAKA Labs is part of ITHAKA, a nonprofit with a mission to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. We collaborate across ITHAKA to turn ideas into impact. Ithaka S+R identifies the pressing challenges facing students, instructors, and institutions through research and engagement with the higher education community. At ITHAKA Labs, we develop, test, and scale solutions to those challenges. As we do so, we leverage the expertise that developed and infrastructure that supports JSTOR’s academic library and Portico’s preservation repository.
Collaborative strategies, research, and tools for higher education
Journals, books, images, and primary sources on a platform for teaching and connecting ideas
Long term protection and preservation of scholarly content
We work with colleges and universities, libraries, publishers, foundations, and nonprofit organizations to create inspiring solutions that expand access to knowledge and education.
