Sierra Williams

Sierra Williams is Community Manager at PeerJ, an open access science publisher for biology, medicine, and computer science. She previously managed strategic communications for the global non-profit Open Knowledge International and spent four years at the London School of Economics as the Managing Editor of the LSE Impact Blog, one of the most popular LSE blogs, now reaching over 90,000 readers a month. She has an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies from Trinity College, Dublin, and a BA in Sociology from the University of San Francisco. Sierra also provided research and administrative support for the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Project. Her interests are in open scholarship, the role of expertise in society, distributed communication networks and data sharing. She tweets @sn_will.