Karen Cangialosi is a passionate change agent, dedicated educator, and student advocate with national recognition in open education, STEM ed, and digital pedagogy. As a professor of biology at Keene State College (now emeritus), she brought open education into the biology curriculum and led campus-wide initiatives to make science education more affordable and inclusive. She now serves as director of Open Education and Open Science at the RIOS Institute, which promotes racial justice and openness in STEM education. Her work centers on transforming higher ed systems to better serve students, especially marginalized students. Her EDUCAUSE Review article, “An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It's Not What You Think),” considers the value of AI, and her recent work explores relationships between open science, open pedagogy, and AI in STEM education transformation.
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