Amanda French

Biography

Amanda French, ROR Technical Community Manager, is a well-known community manager and project director in the scholarly communication and digital humanities spheres. At Crossref, she works to encourage and support use of the Research Organization Registry (ROR). Before coming to Crossref, she served as Community Lead at The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, where she helped build and nurture a community of more than 800 volunteers dedicated to collecting and publishing key COVID-19 data. Prior to that, she directed the Mellon-funded project ‘Resilient Networks for Inclusive Digital Humanities’ at GWU Libraries, directed the Digital Research Services unit at Virginia Tech Libraries, led the THATCamp unconference initiative at GMU’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and was a member of the first cohort of CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows. In her free time she plays guitar and upright bass, plants pollinator-friendly flowers, and enjoys the company of one dog and three cats.