Dr. Barbara Illowsky is co-author of “Introductory Statistics”, “Introductory Business Statistics” and “Collaborative Statistics”, free and open textbooks published by OpenStax College that are used by hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools throughout the country and world. Dr. Illowsky is considered one of the leading international experts in open educational resources. In 2013, the OpenEducation Consortium awarded her its top international award, the Educator ACE Award, for her contributions worldwide in promoting, training, authoring, and advocating for Open Educational Resources. She then served on the international Board of Directors for the OpenEducation Consortium. Dr. Illowsky has been a mathematics and statistics professor at De Anza College since 1989. She has been on loan to many projects, including the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative as its Chief Academic Affairs Officer. This year, she is the first OER and Innovation Fellow for the Michelson 20Million Minds Foundation. She spends her days advocating for and promoting adoption of OER. Dr. Illowsky earned her BS in Mathematics from SUNY Albany, her MA in Statistics from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in Education: Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University.