Briana O'Neal, Open Education Conference Manager
Briana O’Neal is the Open Education Conference Manager at SPARC. In this role, she coordinates the logistics of the annual Open Education Conference, which SPARC currently supports, in addition to supporting its board of directors and community.
Briana comes to this role from the world of higher education where, for the last decade, she has worn many hats including teaching, advising, academic support, project management, and intergroup dialogue facilitation. She is a former Chair of the Maryland Advising Conference and has been a presenter at NASPA and ACPA since 2018. She enjoys bringing people together to discuss ways in which practitioners and policymakers can move forward in better service to students.
Briana graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Science in Higher Education from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently based in Maryland.