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Allison Levy is Director of Brown University Digital Publications, a program of distinction based in the University Library's renowned Center for Digital Scholarship and launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation with further support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. BUDP, which provides a novel and intentional university-based approach to digital content development, is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age. In her role as director, Levy brings together key organizational, academic, and technological resources to support new forms of faculty-authored scholarship, resulting in pathbreaking, award-winning publications. A hallmark of BUDP under her leadership is the centering of access and inclusion in the practice and production of digital scholarship, as exemplified by the 2022 and 2024 NEH Institutes on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities "Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps" (winner of a 2025 EPIC Award for DEIA Initiatives by the Society for Scholarly Publishing) and the IMLS program "Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing" (2023-2026). Levy also spearheads efforts at the industry level to advance the conversation around the development, evaluation, and publication of born-digital scholarship. She currently serves on the Association of University Presses Library Relations Committee and the Renaissance Society of America Digital and Multimedia Committee.