The BitCurator Consortium is excited to share that our full Executive Council for 2025–2027 is now in place. This council brings together our four new members alongside our continuing President and Treasurer, who will serve through June 2026. Together, this group will guide the Consortium through its next phase following our fiscal host transition from Educopia to the Open Library Foundation. Due to the transition, Executive Council elections were paused in 2024.

The Executive Council will carry forward the work of ensuring long-term sustainability for the BitCurator Environment and the community that surrounds it. This team will continue to strengthen the infrastructure, partnerships, and programs that address the articulated needs of the BCC community – training, collaboration, software development, and documentation – while advocating for the use of open source tools and digital forensics practice worldwide.

We are especially grateful to the Transition Team, Lori Podolsky, Elena Colón Marrero,  Shelly Black, and Julie Browny whose careful efforts over the past year made this organizational move possible, and to all members of the BCC community who contributed their insight, energy, and ideas.

We look forward to what this next chapter will bring, and we invite you to join us in welcoming the 2025–2027 Executive Council.

Valencia L. Johnson
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University
BCC President-Elect
Serving 2025-2027

Mark Pellegrino
McMaster University
BCC Executive Council Member
Serving 2025-2027

Annie Schweikert
Stanford University Libraries
BCC Executive Council Member
Serving 2025-2027

Elena Colón-Marrero
Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan
BCC President
Serving 2023-2026

Shelly Black
North Carolina State University Libraries
BCC Treasurer
Serving 2023-2026

Sara Rogers
Frances Loeb Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
BCC Treasurer Designate
Serving 2025-2027

The strength of the BCC has always been its community, and with this new Executive Council in place, we are excited to continue building a sustainable and vibrant future together.