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Thursday, October 29, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 pm ET | Online, interactive | Sliding scale Tickets
Many of us in the knowledge sector genuinely care about equity and shared power. But when things get hard (when resources are tight, timelines are short, or the stakes feel high) our decision-making processes are often the first place those values quietly slip away. We care deeply about doing this work equitably, and yet we often lack the formal training or organizational infrastructure to translate those values into our actual decision-making practices.
That’s why Educopia and METRO are partnering to bring knowledge workers a 60-minute interactive workshop on building more equitable, values-aligned decision-making frameworks for organizations, communities, and collectives.
Drawing on Educopia’s experience, and on its own organizational learning and transition, this workshop shares tools and frameworks to identify decision-making needs, diagnose governance challenges, and move toward solutions you can adapt and implement right away. Whether you’re part of a volunteer-driven collective, a loosely structured initiative, or a more established institution, these strategies are designed to work in your context.
What We’ll Explore
We’ll work through the questions that can get lost with looming deadlines and patron requests:
- Who’s really making decisions in your organization, and who should be part of that?
- What does your current process reveal about how power actually moves in your team?
- What are the unintended consequences of the tools you’re using?
- What would a more transparent, inclusive approach look like, and how do you get there from where you are now?
What You’ll Leave With
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Surface common dynamics around decision-making within the knowledge sector, including challenges, opportunities, and strategies
- Diagnose how power is distributed within their group
- Identify advantages and challenges to their current decision-making processes
- Articulate what a more inclusive and sustainable approach looks like in their specific context, and identify steps they can take from their current position (including practical frameworks, tools, and templates)
Meet the Facilitators
Jackson Huang works at the intersections of technology, sustainability, and knowledge justice. Through their work in distributed digital preservation and various open and inclusive metadata projects, they have found that good governance is as essential as good technical infrastructure to the success and sustainability of community-owned technologies. Jackson is passionate about equipping technical communities with good facilitation and governance, as part of their work to ensure that digital technologies address rather than exacerbate knowledge inequalities.
Katherine Kim is Co-Executive Director at Educopia, where she is responsible for research, consulting, and project management. Drawing from her experiences working in a variety of nonprofit and higher education contexts, Katherine aims to approach organizational culture building with integrity, care, and curiosity. She was previously the Assistant Director of the Digital Library Federation, where she supported communities of practice as well as digital library scholarship and initiatives.
Choose Your Rate
We’re prioritizing transparency with this sliding-scale model and welcome your feedback. Please choose the rate that best reflects your situation:
- Solidarity Rate ($0/Free): For individuals and groups who cannot access this workshop at the standard rate due to financial limitations.
- Standard Rate ($25): For participants whose attendance is funded by an organization (employer, funder, consortium partner, etc.), or who are otherwise able to meet this cost. This rate covers staff time to develop, facilitate, market, and implement the workshop sustainably.
- Sustaining Equity Rate ($60): If you or your organization has flexibility to pay this rate, through professional development funds, program budgets, foundation support, or other resources, we ask you to consider it. These funds feed directly back into the program, helping Educopia connect diverse knowledge communities with resources, power, and each other more sustainably and equitably.
A Collaboration Rooted in Shared Values
This workshop brings together Educopia’s nearly two decades of experience supporting communities in the knowledge sector with METRO’s commitment to connecting and strengthening the people who do this work. Together, we’re offering a shorter, more accessible version of Educopia’s full workshop, The Art of Collective Decision Making, at reduced or no cost, with an emphasis on facilitated discussion and interactive peer learning.
The partnership itself reflects the values at the heart of the session. Educopia and METRO are offering this workshop on a sliding scale as part of a shared commitment to distributing resources equitably and increasing access. It’s a practical example of what happens when organizations align around transparency, shared power, and collective care.
Looking to go deeper? Educopia will offer its full 90-minute workshop, The Art of Collective Decision Making, in early December, featuring a more in-depth presentation of decision-making frameworks and a collective decision-making toolkit for participants.
Join Us
We welcome you wherever you are in your decision-making practice: archivists, librarians, facilitators, and other knowledge workers across community organizations, coalitions, and institutions of all kinds.