The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the appointment of Alice Meadows as Director of Community Engagement. In this role, Meadows will have responsibility for advancing the development of the NISO community, communicating the value of NISO’s projects, events, and other programs, and expanding the resources it has to achieve its mission.
Meadows joins NISO from ORCID, where she served as Director of Communications and, before that, as the organisation’s Director of Community Engagement and Support. In those roles, she developed a deep understanding of the needs of the research information community and an extensive network of contacts. Prior to joining ORCID in 2015, Alice held marketing and communication roles at both Blackwell Publishing and Wiley.
An active participant in industry organisations and initiatives, including the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), Metadata 2020, PIDapalooza, and others, Alice is also a regular contributor to The Scholarly Kitchen blog and other scholarly communications publications, and speaks at numerous industry conferences and events. Alice received the SSP Distinguished Service Award in 2018, the ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing in 2016, and the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) Recognition Award in 2013.
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