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Kate McCready is the program director for open publishing at the Big Ten Academic Alliance's Center for Library Programs where she works to develop collective action strategies to "advance increasingly open, more equitable scholarship", the guiding star of the libraries of the Alliance. To solve shared problems and bring operations to scale, Kate develops programs that strengthen academy-owned open access publishing. She also provides leadership to programs that both support the creation of open access materials and also facilitate investments in sustainable open access content and infrastructure. Kate has served in a variety of library leadership roles and has expertise in program design and assessment, scholarly publishing, and open access infrastructure.