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Tripp, Erin

Erin (she/her/hers) is the Senior Director of Research and Innovation at LYRASIS. Previously, she served as the Director of the DuraSpace Community Supported Programs Division at LYRASIS and as the Executive Director of DuraSpace during its merger with LYRASIS in 2019. She has experience leading teams through change, supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives, stewarding community-supported open source technologies, and developing and maturing new business models. Erin is a member of the Research Data Canada (RDC) Infrastructure Committee, an advisor on the OpenAIRE Advisory Board, and serves as a mentor in the Drexel University LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) Fellowship Program. Prior to working in the library, archives, and museum communities, Erin graduated from the University of King’s College (BJH), worked as a broadcast journalist with CTV Globemedia and graduated from the Dalhousie University School of Information Management (MLIS) where she won the Outstanding Service Award in 2011.