Jen Darragh is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant for the Duke University Libraries. She was interviewed by Liza Coburn in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been involved in some aspect of research data since I graduated from college. I started out working on a longitudinal research data project…
Susan Borda is the Data Workflow Specialist atthe University of Michigan Library. She was interviewed by Dave Fearon in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position – when did you start and where were you before this? June 2017. Montana State University. I had jobs in Higher Ed and corporate IT for…
Dave Fearon is a Senior Data Management Consultant atJohns Hopkins University. He was interviewed by Alicia Hofelich Mohr in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position? I originally got a PhD in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara. Neither I nor my wife wanted to be professors (nor were the offers coming), so…
Alicia Hofelich Mohr is the Research Support Coordinator for Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS) at the University of Minnesota. Alicia was interviewed by Sophia Lafferty-Hess in September, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position in a roundabout way, like a few other curators. I was in…
Sophia Lafferty-Hess is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant at Duke University. Sophia was interviewed by Seth Erickson in August, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I got involved in data curation and data management during graduate school at UNC. I did an internship at the Odum Institute for Research in Social…
Seth Erickson is the Software Curation Librarian and CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. Seth was interviewed by Chen Chiu in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I did my PhD in Information Studies at UCLA. I studied researcher software development practices. I’d been interested in this area for…
Chen Chiu is a Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. Chen was interviewed by Hoa Luong in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I was doing a postdoc at Johns Hopkins and wanted to transition into a full-time position. I applied for this data management position and was hired!…
Hoa Luong is the Assistant Director of Research Data Curation for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hoa was interviewed by Jennifer Moore in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I received my MLIS from UIUC and then I got a position in the Engineering Library at the University of…
Jennifer Moore is Head of Data Services for Washington University Libraries at Washington University in St. Louis. Jennifer was interviewed by Rachel Woodbrook in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I started as a Social Science Librarian with a focus in Anthropology at WashU about eight years ago. I’ve had…
Rachel Woodbrook is the Data Curation Librarian for the University of Michigan. Rachel was interviewed by Shanda Hunt in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? After graduating from library school I worked in community college libraries for a while and then the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in…