Gillian Bell
Gillian Bell is a Project Manager who joined Brown's Academic Technology team in 2014. She works with instructional designers and technologists to organize their work with faculty and leads communication efforts about Brown's academic technology services, producing videos, case studies, and reports. As a Project Manager in the larger IT organization for six years, Gillian managed the implementation of Google Apps for Education, the roll-out of a closed captioning system for online courses and media, and an assessment of learning management systems. Gillian has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. She earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2007 and ITIL certification in 2012 and currently serves on Brown's Diversity Advisory Board.

Catherine Hays Zabriskie
Catherine Hays Zabriskie is the Director of Academic Technology Services at Brown University. She is responsible for leading the unit's efforts on the effective use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. Her team delivers campus-wide academic technology services through instructional design, media production, and classroom technology expertise. She enthusiastically engages faculty, students and colleagues on strategic initiatives to meet the university’s academic mission. Catherine led Brown’s transition to Canvas (2011) and Brown’s adoption of a central approach to closed captioning video content in support of accessibility (2014). She has been instrumental in the ongoing development and delivery of a suite of video services. Catherine received her B.S in Art History from the University for Colorado, and her M.S. in Educational Technology Leadership from the George Washington University. Prior to coming to Brown University, Catherine supported faculty innovations in teaching and technology for the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland.

Devayani Tirthali
Devayani Tirthali is an Educational technology practitioner, researcher and evaluator with 10+ years of experience in higher education. She has a Doctorate in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. As an Instructional Designer in the Academic Technology Team at Brown University she offers consultations to faculty on purposeful use of technology for teaching and learning; works as a CIS liaison to faculty; Implements communication strategies through the ITG blog and newsletter; designs and implements campus wide surveys, focus groups, and evaluations. Before coming to Brown Devayani worked with Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University as Research Associate and at the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning as New Media Associate.