Melinda Newfarmer

Melinda Newfarmer brings over 25 years of experience in educational technology, product development, and editorial management to ISKME and OER Commons. At ISKME, Melinda runs the services group, which includes platform and tools development, field building in open education, and library services. Each team in the services group strives to further ISKME’s purpose of building participatory, equitable access to education. Prior to joining ISKME in 2014, Melinda worked at Stanford Libraries developing an eBook platform for scholarly communications and Cengage Learning developing multimedia and interactive education products to support the life sciences in higher education.