Yasmeen Shorish is a Professor and the Director of Data & Scholarly Communications at James Madison University Libraries. In that role, she provides support for scholarly communications across the organization, including the development of inclusive and equitable practices related to publishing model support. Her research focuses on changes in scholarly communication, data ethics and privacy, and issues related to representation in the field. She believes that moving towards epistemic justice will create more representative and authentic knowledge sharing.
She has been a part of the Mellon-funded Collections as Data: Part to Whole grant team and the IMLS-funded OA in the Open and Responsible AI grant projects. She received her MSLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.