Header image with MYFest25, June, July and August 2025 written in the middle. On the right there is the equity unbound logo of a colorful world map and the words 'equity unbound' overlaid and on the left there is the MYFest logo with the colorful blue, pink and purple circle in the middle and the words 'equitable, emergent, caring, community, creative' around the circle.
Headshot of Lisa Petrides, a smiling white woman with long blonde hair wearing a dark top and hoop earrings, on top of a MYFest background of colorful pink, purple and blue four-sided shapes spiraling out from the center.

Lisa Petrides

Guest Facilitator or Speaker

Lisa Petrides, PhD is CEO and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a nonprofit dedicated to make learning and knowledge-sharing participatory, equitable, and open. She is a scholar and international open educational resources expert who led the development of research, policy and practice, to create and support the field of open educational practice.

Her work includes the creation of ISKME’s award winning OER Commons, a digital public library of open educational resources and collaboration platform that facilitates the discovery and improvement of high-quality digital resources that are free, openly licensed, and available for a diverse range of learners. She also serves as a member of UNESCO’s OER Dynamic Coalition Advisory Group, supporting the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER.

A former professor at Columbia University, Teachers College, she has advised and led efforts that enable schools, colleges, universities, ministries of education, and the organizations that support them to expand their capacity to create inclusive knowledge-driven environments focused on teaching and learning. She has a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Stanford University. She was elected to the San Mateo County Community College District Board of Trustees in November 2020, and currently serves as president, with responsibility for a three-campus community college system in California serving more than 25,000 students.

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