Jennifer Lin is passionate about open access and its political and social impacts. As a former business consultant with Accenture, she worked with Fortune 500 companies as well as governments to develop and deploy new products and services. Jennifer received her PhD in political philosophy and has served as an instructor at Johns Hopkins University.

In 2014, Jennifer co-authored a paper in PLoS Biology with Carly Strasser on Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data:  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001975