Open Ed and Tribal Colleges and Universities 

Amy Chen is the Program Director for Open Education at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), where she leads initiatives to strengthen open education across Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). In this role, she works to expand access to culturally relevant, high-quality, and affordable learning resources through the integration of open educational resources (OER), faculty development, and collaborative networks. With a deep commitment to capacity building and community-driven approaches that honor Indigenous knowledge systems, Amy has been instrumental in connecting TCUs to national and international open education movements, ensuring their voices shape the future of equitable and inclusive learning.

Amy also serves on the CCC OER and DOERS committees and previously worked as a medical editor, project manager, and academic librarian. She earned her PhD in English from Emory University and is the author of Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market (2020) and 1,000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy (2022). Her recent article, “Designing an OER Outreach Program for Tribal Colleges and Universities with Fall 2024 Commercial Book Adoption Data,” was published in the Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE).