An interview with Madison Snider, Siegel Family Endowment [Systems Leadership Series #5]

Madison Snider [Siegel Family Endowment] talks to 
Jessica Meyerson [Educopia] about the power of 
friction, plural leadership, and what it means to 
build technology with communities rather than for them.

Rest as a Practice: Educopia’s 2026 Organizational Closure Dates

Educopia’s four intentional seasonal closures are back for 2026 — because rest isn’t a disruption to our work, it’s part of how we do it. Here are the dates!

An Interview with Anne Lee Steele, STUDIO SANSHIN [Systems Leadership Series #4]

Anne Lee Steele talks about the evolving open ecosystem, the human side of systems leadership, and what it takes to sustain collaborative digital communities today.

November 3 to 14: Book a 30-Minute Office Hour on Navigating Transitions with Educopia’s Consultants

Change is constant in collaborative work, yet organizations often navigate it without naming it as a transition or having tools to manage it. Transitions Office Hours offer free, 30-minute sessions to explore challenges, ask questions, and gain practical guidance from experienced facilitators.

The Shapes of the Maintainers: Mapping How a Fiscal Sponsee Adapted, Transitioned, and Sustained

The Shapes of the Maintainers traces the evolution of a fiscally sponsored network navigating shifts in funding, leadership, and community engagement. Through visual mapping and narrative reflection, the publication documents how The Maintainers adapted its governance, transitioned to a distributed leadership model, and sustained its mission. The story offers practical insights for other networks and communities of practice facing change.

Field Notes on Transition: Reflections on the BitCurator Consortium’s Fiscal Sponsor Transition

Over the past year, Educopia worked closely with the BitCurator Consortium (BCC) as they explored and enacted a shift to a new fiscal host. Drawing on our experience supporting mission-aligned communities through structural and strategic change, we helped facilitate BCC’s transition across multiple touchpoints.

Interview with Kimberly Jenkins, The Fashion and Race Database [Systems Leadership Series #03]

In conversation with Kimberly Jenkins, the visionary behind The Fashion and Race Database, we trace the fault lines of exclusion and erasure that run through the fashion system, and explore the radical power of creativity, research, and institution-building as tools for rewriting the narrative.

An Interview with Gita Manaktala, MIT Press [Systems Leadership Series #02]

Gita Manaktala of the MIT Press shares how university publishing can defend academic freedom, embrace innovation, and expand who gets to create and access knowledge, even in a time of profound change.

Educopia Consultants Offer Free 30 Min Office Hours from June 9 – 27

To meet the current moment, Educopia is offering free 30-minute Office Hours with members of our consulting team from May 27 to June 13, 2025.