 Hello, my name is Ursula Pike and I am the author of Origin Stories, Pathways to Open Education. I'm here to tell you a little bit about my project and hopefully inspire you to tell your own origin story. Before I tell you about the OER I created, I first want to tell you a little bit about me so you'll know why I created it. I work for the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas. I'm also an author and a creative writing instructor. I'm involved with the CCC OER's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and I'm a member of the Karuk tribe. Our homeland is on the Pacific coast near the California-Oregon border. So all these parts of my identity contributed to me wanting to create an OER that promoted equity, diversity and inclusion but I didn't know how best to do that. At Open Ed 19, before the pandemic and before the nationwide reckoning with race that happened in the summer of 2020, I saw a poster presentation by Melina Thied from SUNY Plattsburg with this data right here on the lack of diversity in OER creation. This data is upsetting, not surprising and sadly actually a little bit better than traditional textbook publishing which has even less diversity. To me this was one of the most important presentations at Open Ed 19 but it wasn't until a year later when I began my Spark Open Education Leadership Program that I was able to do something to address it. I ask the participants of Origin Stories six questions. Tell me about yourself and how you came to Open Education. How do you see your unique identities intersecting with Open, if at all? Tell me about an Open Education project you've been involved with. I asked them how did they see their role in the future of Open Education. I asked them what the biggest benefit of Open Education was and what's missing and then I asked them what questions they were grappling with related to Open Education. In response to the first question about how they were involved with OER in the first place, Tanja Connerly said my department chair came to me and asked. Shinta Hernandez said I became involved in the grant as a sociology professor and Angela Debarger said it started to click for me the connection between what we wanted to accomplish and the intention of OER. How would you answer this question? How did you become involved with the Open Education movement? Were you invited in? Were you just curious? Were you handed the responsibility for OER? Was it something that you thought would be good for your career? There's no wrong answers here but I think it's important to look at at the answers to determine who are the gatekeepers? Who are the bouncers? Who are the doorman of Open Education? Who let you in and who are you helping if by nothing more than your example? How would you answer this question? How do you see your unique identities intersecting with open? If at all, what are your identities? Are you a researcher? Cuban American? Instructor? I ask the question because each of us contains a multitude of identities. I'm native but as I said in my introduction I am also a creative writing instructor and sometimes my desire to find openly licensed materials conflicts with my desire to provide my students with writing by diverse authors. I'll always choose diversity over open resources. I hate that I have to make that choice but I'm okay with it. The next question I ask was what do you think is the biggest benefit of open education and what do you think is missing? Jesse Lawyer said for Indigenous people open access especially related to our collections can help us reunite with those relatives that are held in collections. Shinta Hernandez said we can still improve we can develop more accurate assessments and Angela de Barger said open education can play a role in system transformation. I want to highlight one more response to this question. Ariana Santiago said what's missing is balance. I think that can apply to our work in open education and I know definitely I feel that sometimes applies to our work in equity diversity and inclusion. How would you answer this question? What do you think is the biggest benefit of open education and what do you think is missing? We all know open education can save students money but what other goals do you or your institution have that are addressed by open education? The final question that I asked the women in origin stories is these are my questions but what questions about open education are you grappling with? That's the question that I'm asking you right now. What's the question about open that no one has asked and that no one has asked you? So what's the point of my project of my interviews of origin stories as a whole? I have been asked how an instructor or an open education practitioner can use these stories to address equity and the truth is it's not a straight line. You can't say Angela de Barger said this in origin stories so we should do x. In diversity equity and inclusion in open research and education Tara Roberts asks who is missing? Who isn't even in the room? Who doesn't have a seat at the table? Who is sitting on the margins? Who doesn't feel welcome? Who has to fight to have their viewpoints respected? When I asked these questions about the open movement it was clear to me that as a woman of color I felt like I was sitting on the margins so I created a project that centered women of color. I hope that the efforts of these leaders and many more who are working to transform education using open are recognized. I hope that this presentation has made you a little bit curious about origin stories. You can access the google doc of origin stories at my page on the spark open education leadership program. Watch your favorite open education listserv because I'll be publishing the full resource via press books soon. I also hope you're inspired to tell your own origin story. Thank you and please follow me or reach out on social media if you have questions.