Kate McCready (she/her/hers) is the Program Director for Open Publishing at the Big Ten Academic Alliance's Center for Library Programs. In this role, Kate is leading the development of a vision for a multifaceted, sustainable course of action to strengthen academy-owned publishing and to broadly enable the production of open access content. This work is part of the development of the BIG Collection, which aims to manage the separate collections of the Big Ten university libraries as a single collection. Kate has also served in a variety of roles at the University of Minnesota Libraries including the interim associate university librarian for collections, director of content services, and publishing services librarian.