Hello! I’m Amy Hildreth Chen, an independent scholar.

I earned my PhD from Emory University in 2013, then worked in special collections at Emory, University of Alabama, and University of Iowa before transitioning to project management at JMI Laboratories and Precigen Exemplar. Now I’m back in higher education as a project director at AIHEC, where I promote the use and creation of open educational resources and serve on the Education, Diversity, and Equity Committee of the Community College Consortium as well as in OER Equity for DOERS3. My most recent publication is a chapter in Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive, “The Collections Cycle in the Modernist Archive Market.”

On a personal note, I’m married to Muzel Chen, a mom to William Chen, and a dog mom to Red, who we think is an English Shepherd (thanks Marion County Humane Society). We’re Iowans by way of the South. I love black coffee, peanut butter toast with raisins, and red wine. I primarily read nonfiction, but I do have a soft spot for Dune and Game of Thrones IPs. I’m a sucker for Japanese and Scandi design and loved visiting both areas.