Amy Hildreth Chen is the Program Director for Open Education at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), the uniting spirit of 37 Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). A non-Native based in Iowa, Amy previously worked in a variety of capacities, including as a medical editor, project manager, and academic librarian. Amy received her PhD in English from Emory University in 2013 and is the author of two books, Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) and 1,000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy (Springer, 2022). Her most recent cultural heritage publication is a chapter in Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive, “The Collections Cycle in the Modernist Archive Market” and her most recent Open Education-focused piece is “Open Education for the Arts and Humanities at TCUs” at the Tribal College Journal. Amy serves on two professional committees: the Education, Diversity, and Equity Committee of the Community College Consortium as well as the OER Equity working group for DOERS3. In her free time, she writes at Bedtime Stories, volunteers with the Iowa City Litter Crew, and takes barre classes when she’s not hanging out with her husband and son.