Biography

Michelle Reed is an advocate for the legal, political, cultural, and technological change necessary to open access to scholarship and education. She serves as the Research Manager for Library Futures, a project of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law. Michelle manages Library Future's research portfolio in support of digital rights and equitable access to knowledge. Prior to joining NYU Law, Michelle worked in academic libraries at the intersections of technology, education, and intellectual property, including as Head of the Scholarly Commons at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and as Director of Open Educational Resources at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2021, her work building OER policies and workflows received the Library Publishing Coalition’s Publishing Practice Award in accessibility.