Keynote Speakers


Robin DeRosa

Executive Director of the Open Education Network

Robin DeRosa (https://robinderosa.net) is the Executive Director of the Open Education Network, an organization based at the University of Minnesota that supports a collective of institutions who partner together to make higher education more accessible, affordable, and engaging for learners. Before joining the OEN, Robin worked at a rural public university in New Hampshire where she served over her career as a professor of literature and Interdisciplinary Studies, the founder of the teaching center, and the director of the library. She is the co-editor of Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education (2020). She lives in New Hampshire with her family, including two perfect dogs, Flying Dan and Big Toe.


Asao Inoue

Professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University

Asao Inoue is professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His research focuses on antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments. He is the author of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing for a Socially Just Future (2015), which won the 2017 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for a monograph and the 2015 CWPA Outstanding Book Award, and of Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom (2019).


Jesse Stommel

Faculty member at the University of Denver and co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy

Jesse Stommel (https://www.jessestommel.com) is a faculty member in the Writing Program at University of Denver. He is also co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy: the journal of critical digital pedagogy and Digital Pedagogy Lab. He has a PhD from University of Colorado Boulder. He is author of Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop and co-author of An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy.