jean amaral is an Associate Professor and Open Knowledge Librarian at BMCC/CUNY. Her co-authored publications include “Mapping Student Days: Collaborative Ethnography and the Student Experience” and “A Decade of Research at Urban Commuter Colleges. One of her areas of expertise is in OER and Professor amaral leads frequent raining workshops to instruct faculty on how to use open educational resources. In 2020 amaral won the Elton B. Stephens Company (EBSCO) Community College Learning Resources Leadership Award, recognizing amaral’s leadership in developing BMCC’s Open Educational Resources (OER)/Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) and Open Pedagogy Programs — which have saved an estimated 50,000 students over $6 million in four years.