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Jennie Rose Halperin (she/her/hers) is a digital strategist, community builder, commoner, and librarian who serves as Executive Director of Library Futures. She is focused on growing the organization and its reach and fostering a culture of open, inclusive leadership to support equitable library policy and advocacy. Jennie joins Library Futures from Harvard Law School Library, where she served as the Assistant Director for Outreach and Community Engagement. Previously, she managed communications for Creative Commons and worked on growth and community at O'Reilly Media and Mozilla. A committed civic leader, in 2018, she was chosen for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's SPARK Cohort for Millennial Leaders, and her work on the commons was awarded a Public Space Invitational Grant in 2019. She is enthusiastic about most things, but particularly communal living, community strategy, group facilitation, and cooperative work. She speaks German and some Spanish. Jennie received her MLS from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BA from Barnard College.