Allison Powell

Allison works at the intersection of humanities scholarship and sustainable infrastructure. She's responsible for the Scholars' Lab's long-term commitment to graduate training — the part of digital library work that almost no one budgets for.

Allison’s talk argues that the most underfunded component of the open-knowledge stack is human: the graduate curricula, the slow apprenticeships, the informal mentorship that quietly produces the next generation of builders. She offers a concrete blueprint for how institutions can reinvest without waiting for a federal program to save them.