Reviewers, 2026
The editorial board has generously agreed to review the 2026 submissions for new Pocket Burgundy publications and, together, will select a slate of new projects to be published in 2027 and 2028. Their selections will be announced by the end of May 2026.
Marc Hoffeditz is a facilitator and librarian serving as the Deputy Director of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC). He joined BLC after a decade of public service experience in academic libraries across the Greater Boston area. Marc’s consortial work is focused on centering and elevating the experience of resource sharing practitioners, leading BLC’s Alma Network Zone project, and guiding a number of other cross-consortial initiatives. He received his MLIS from San José State University and when not BLC-ing, Marc enjoys life in Western Massachusetts with his husband Wes cooking and playing in a queer sportsball league.
Andrea Jackson Gavin is the Program Director of the HBCU Digital Library Trust at Harvard Library. She previously served as Director of Engagement and Scholarship, and Head of Archives Research Center at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library, as well as the Executive Director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, University of Chicago Libraries. Jackson Gavin was named a Fellow of the Society of Georgia Archivists, and has centered her work on preserving and making accessible African American history and culture. She is an alumna of Spelman College and New York University with a masters degree in US History and certification in Archival Management.
Blessing Mawire works at the intersection of knowledge, equity, and development. With a background in Information Science, Knowledge Management, and Development Communication, she has led multi‑country projects that strengthen access to research and support under represented communities to use information for change. Her work includes designing and managing programs for organizations such as UN partner agencies, PAHO, national institutions, and Research4Life; co‑building initiatives from the ground up (including CLIR’s Hidden Collections Africa). She has extensive experience with publishers, open access, and supporting local researchers and practitioners to tell their own stories. Blessing holds a masters in Development Communication, a postgraduate qualification in Knowledge Management, and an Honors degree in Information Science.
Morgan McKeehan is a Digital Repository Metadata Specialist at Oregon State University Libraries & Press. Her areas of interest include linked open data for digital collections, inclusive metadata practices, and improving access and discoverability of born-digital and digitized materials in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
Martin Tsang is a Senior Program Officer with the Whiting Foundation, where he supports programs across literature, the humanities, and cultural preservation. Previously, he served as a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, overseeing grant portfolios focused on access, preservation, public humanities, and community-based cultural work. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and has researched, taught, and published on Asian diasporas in the Caribbean and Afro Atlantic religious materiality. From 2015 to 2022, Martin served as the Cuban Heritage Collection Librarian at the University of Miami and as the inaugural Curator of Latin American Collections, where he was also a faculty member, teaching in the departments of Anthropology and Religious Studies.
Reviewers, 2022
Lotus Norton Wisla, community archivist, Washington State University Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC)
Miriam Posner, assistant professor, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Information Studies
Ricardo “Ricky” Punzalan, associate professor of archives and digital curation, School of Information, University of Michigan
Hadassah St. Hubert, historian, independent scholar, senior program officer, former CLIR postdoctoral fellow
Scott Walter, dean, San Diego State University Library
Reviewers, 2021
Amy Hildreth Chen, medical editor, literary scholar, and former CLIR postdoctoral fellow
Jasmine Clark, digital scholarship librarian at Temple University
Matthew Kirschenbaum, professor of English and digital studies, and director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies, University of Maryland
Selena Ortega-Chiolero, museum specialist for the Chickaloon Village Traditional Council in Palmer, Alaska