Hugh has been building web tools and communities that bring books onto the web for a decade. He is the founder of Pressbooks, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation, and the founder of LibriVox.org and iambik. He is the co-editor of “Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto.”  You can find him at @hughmcguire.

Liz began marketing Pressbooks because she loved using it. With a background in higher ed, she has used Pressbooks as an editor for many books including Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship and A Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students, among others. She is glad to talk with you about why educators love Pressbooks.

Taylor joined Pressbooks in May 2018. She holds a graduate degree from Simon Fraser University’s Master of Publishing program and an honors-designated Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Missouri Western State University. Her graduate research was focused on establishing workflows for library-based OER production programs in post-secondary institutions across Canada and the United States. Her goal is to contribute meaningfully to a community that enables access to education for all students. She’s a big fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Andy’s Frozen Custard, and queer literature.

Dac is an experienced developer with a penchant for ebooks and digital sound. He specializes in web applications and back end for mobile applications and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. His hobbies include swimming, skateboarding, and being a dad. His daughter speaks French, Japanese, and English–one more language than he does.

Steel began working with the open-source Pressbooks project in 2015 and joined the Pressbooks team as their educational client manager in late 2018. Steel has a Ph.D. in English Literature and a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies. Outside of work and family, his great loves are poetry (with a special interest in the work of the “Objectivists”), music, DIY/indie web stuff, vegetarian food, and playing pickup soccer.

Phil is an active contributor to open source software for infrastructure automation and provides related consulting services to Pressbooks. His technical consulting experience is a continuation of a past life in quantitative research and publication, involving a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Phil is a lover of beaches, canines, and solitude.

Daniel is a recent recipient of a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art. After moving to Montreal from Winnipeg in 2016, he became interested in web development and hopes to further explore the intersections between art, design, and code.