Our Team
Our staff ensure that we advance our preservation and access mission every day. For our strategic and fiduciary vision, we rely on our members — though the Board of Governors and other advisory groups — to lead us toward the greatest impact.
Andrea Cote
Business Process Consultant Lead
Andrea supports enterprise-level business operations and excellence. Working collaboratively across the organization, she guides the development of program strategy for business assessment and workflow design, portfolio and project management, and service roadmapping and design.
Graham Dethmers
Metadata Analyst
Graham manages the flow of bibliographic metadata into and through HathiTrust Digital Library applications and services. He also works with other third-party services to improve seamless discovery of HathiTrust items in member libraries’ catalogs and discovery systems.
Aaron Elkiss
Enterprise Architect
Aaron plans and leads the development of HathiTrust's repository infrastructure, applications, and other technological components to meet the current and future needs of HathiTrust users, members, and staff.
Natalie Fulkerson
Collection Services Librarian
Natalie works with partner libraries to coordinate the deposit of their materials into HathiTrust, and supports other organizational goals including digital preservation, analysis, and process improvement. She also serves on the Digital Object Quality Corrections group, working to improve the quality of the HathiTrust corpus.
Mike Furlough
Executive Director
As the Chief Executive Officer of HathiTrust, Mike has ultimate responsibility for the strategic development of HathiTrust’s programs, services, staffing, and business operations. He works closely with members of the Board of Governors and Program Steering Committee to identify new strategic initiatives aligned with the member community’s needs. He bears responsibility for communication with and engagement of the membership and represents the organization in relevant national/international contexts.
Brian Hall
Application Programmer/Analyst Senior
Brian works as part of the technological team designing and developing the infrastructure and components of the digital library repository.
Kristina Eden Hall
Rights and Access Specialist
Kristina directs the work of copyright reviewers from a number of library partners across the country in identifying public domain books and making them accessible in HathiTrust.
Emily Lezotte
Budget Analyst
Emily supports organizational-level budget planning, preparation, and management, as well as operational and project-related financial matters.
Gayathri Ramesh
UX Designer
Gayathri conducts user research and designs new components for our digital library and web interfaces with an emphasis on accessibility and universal design principles.
Jessica Belle Rohr
Communications and Marketing Strategist
Jessica leads HathiTrust’s marketing and communications strategy. She manages the HathiTrust brand, website, newsletter, and public relations, and helps HathiTrust staff share our services, stories, and successes.
Erin Russell
Senior Project Manager
Erin guides the development of common project management practices and techniques, and helps integrate these practices into the organization. She leads complex, technology-driven projects to deliver the most benefit and value for our community.
K'Ron Spar
Devops Engineer
K'Ron helps to support HathiTrust's application hosting environments and to support the development team through a variety of technologies including automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and alerting.
Melissa Stewart
Member Relations Specialist
Melissa is the primary point person supporting new members and also works with new and continuing members to ensure they are well informed about HathiTrust programs and services and the benefits of membership for their organizations and communities.
Janet Swatscheno
Digital Scholarship Librarian and Associate Director for Outreach & Education at HTRC
Janet plans and leads HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Outreach and Education Services to facilitate new scholarship and teaching through expanding the use of text and data mining services. She engages with faculty, academic staff, and students on scholarly computational uses of the HathiTrust collection.
Lianet Sepulveda Torres
Search Engineer
Lianet focuses on indexing and searching data, including bibliographic metadata and the full text for over 18 million scanned books. She works with developers, librarians, and other partners to deliver more relevant catalog and full text search results for a diverse user audience.
Jennifer Vinopal
Associate Director
Jennifer’s portfolio includes day-to-day management of HathiTrust’s operations and staff, including our digital library services and programs, ensuring effective development and execution of infrastructure and services. She leads implementation of HathiTrust’s Building Resilience program, funded by the Mellon Foundation through 2025.
Val Waldron
User Support Specialist
Val serves as the Chair of HathiTrust User Support, which is the primary feedback mechanism for HathiTrust. She oversees 30+ volunteers from member libraries as they handle and triage user communications, and works with her colleagues to identify issues and feedback of interest that can be used to improve HathiTrust services.
Martin Warin
Database Developer
Martin writes code for some of the services behind HathiTrust. He also works with the Print Holdings and Shared Print data submitted by member libraries.
Heather Weltin
Content & Data Management Lead and Shared Print Program Officer
Heather has strategic responsibility for developing and implementing a collection strategy and supporting the development of new collection uses in alignment with HathiTrust’s Strategic Vision and priorities. She acts as a partner in defining collecting strategies with member libraries, content providers, and other external stakeholders.
Ashley Willis-Bradley
Assistant to Executive Director
Ashley provides administrative support to the Executive and Assistant Directors, and contributes to operations activities and staff support.
Caryl Wyatt
Front End Developer
Caryl focuses on our digital library interfaces and designs solutions to meet the needs of diverse users from around the world. This includes modernizing interfaces for our search, online book-reading, personalized collection management, and continuing to expand our focus on accessibility.
Ange Zaytsev
User Research and Digital Services Librarian
Ange determines front end development priorities for the HathiTrust Digital Library applications, leads user research and software development projects, and ensures high quality provision of services through the digital library.
Questions?
Contact our member-led user support team for help!