Amber Billey is the Systems and Metadata Librarian at Bard College. She received her MLIS from Pratt Institute in 2009. Billey is Chair of the Leadership Team for the Core Metadata & Collection Section and past Co-Chair of the Core Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is a member of the PCC Advisory Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and was the Chair of the PCC Ad Hoc Task Group on Gender in Name Authority Records. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Digital Transgender Archive, and the editorial board for the Homosaurus – a linked data thesaurus for the LGBTQ+ community. When she isn’t thinking about metadata and the future of libraries, Billey enjoys hiking in mountains, swimming in oceans, and sitting on meditation cushions.

Elizabeth Nelson is the Cataloging and Collection Development Librarian at McHenry County College, where she has worked since 2008. In her current role she is responsible for cataloging decisions, Alma and Primo administration, and creating a library collection that reflects the needs and identities of students. She has also received several grants that allowed the library to provide services and materials to underrepresented groups on campus. Prior to working in academic libraries, she started her career in public libraries and then spent seven years in special libraries working on cataloging projects and knowledge management. She is the current editor for Library Leadership & Management (LL&M) as well as a subject editor for Resources for College Libraries: Career Resources. In both of these roles she is focused on issues related to diversity and equity in the editorial process. Outside of work, her three kids keep her too busy to think about anything else.

Rebecca Uhl has over 30 years’ experience as a catalog and authority control librarian at Arizona State University. Currently serving as the Principal Cataloger and Lead, Cataloging and Operations on the Acquisitions and Metadata Services team, she has experience as a manager, supervisor and department head, in addition to copy and original cataloging in all formats. As the ASU liaison to the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, she trains catalogers and reviews NACO, SACO and BIBCO submissions. She has followed discussions on diversity, equity and inclusion in libraries and implemented local changes to catalog records, adding more inclusive terminology for underserved populations, and investigating how to provide more culturally appropriate access to materials relating to Native Americans of the Southwest. When not working, she enjoys training and showing her dogs.