Hi All,


*Apologies for cross-posting! I wanted to pass along an upcoming free panel
discussion hosted by Educopia that I thought might be relevant to this
community; details are below:*
Across libraries, archives, presses, and preservation programs, people are
doing more with less, often in isolation, while problems that were always
systemic have become impossible to ignore. We don't think the answer is to
keep bracing for the next emergency on our own. It's to get better at
seeing the systems we're part of, and at acting on them together.

*Join Educopia for Systems Leadership for Knowledge Equity [registration
link]
<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0uVYBjTlSD6K_0557xBP5A#/registration>
,
a free 90-minute virtual panel discussion with four people who have been
doing exactly that:*

   - Jessi Haley <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessi-haley-chicago/>, Cita
   Press <https://citapress.org/>: a feminist, open-access press recovering
   and freely sharing overlooked writing by women
   - Tania Ríos Marrero <https://pr.linkedin.com/in/taniamariarios>, Digital
   Public Library of America <https://dp.la/>: building relational
   partnerships that center community knowledge sovereignty
   - Chelle Sanders, Software Preservation Network
   <https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/>: a collective effort to
   keep digital culture accessible as the software it depends on disappears
   - Melanie Schlosser <https://librarypublishing.org/about/#staff>, Library
   Publishing Coalition <https://librarypublishing.org/>: a community of
   80+ academic and research libraries and library consortia building a
   scholarly publishing landscape that is open, inclusive, and sustainable.

Each of our panelists work in the connective tissue of our field, in
coalitions, networks, and partnerships, where much of the most meaningful
change actually happens. The conversation will weave together three threads:

   1. *Surfacing the Cracks: *How the past year and a half has exposed and
   deepened systemic challenges and structural inequities across knowledge
   infrastructure, labor and the sector.
   2. *Building Sustainable Knowledge Work: *What fairly compensated,
   community-facing work looks like, the conditions that make it possible, and
   what we and our colleagues can do to move the field in that direction.
   3. *Courage and Collective Power:* Recognizing who is leading with
   courage right now, and strengthening new and existing relationships to
   build power together.

You don’t need a leadership title to belong in this conversation. If you
work in libraries, archives, museums, publishing, preservation, or the
infrastructure that connects them, we hope you’ll bring your questions,
your experience, and your hopes into the room with us. You'll leave with a
fresh way of seeing your own corner of the ecosystem, real examples to
learn from, and the reminder that many others care about the same things
you do.

*Key Details:*

   - Systems Leadership for Knowledge Equity [Zoom panel discussion]
   - *See more details about the panel in this blog post*
   <https://educopia.org/blog/october-27-2026-200-330-pm-edt-systems-leadership-for-knowledge-equity-an-educopia-panel-discussion-free-and-open-to-all/>
   - *Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · 2:00–3:30 pm ET · Free*
   - *Register via Zoom, at this link*
   <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0uVYBjTlSD6K_0557xBP5A#/registration>

This panel builds on Educopia's Systems Leadership Interview Series
<https://educopia.org/resource-library/#systems-leadership> and Practicing
Systems Leadership workshops.

My best,
Aloma Antao
Sr. Creative Strategist


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