Maura Marx

Director and Berkman Center Fellow

Maura is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and has been responsible for driving the agenda and community-building efforts of the Secretariat since its inception. Marx was Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, an organization funded by the Sloan Foundation that helped lay the foundation for DPLA through advocacy and demonstration projects. Previously, she was responsible for starting the Boston Public Library’s Digital Services Program. Before coming to work in libraries, she lived and worked in Europe for organizations including the Guggenheim Museum (Salzburg), Warner Bros. Austria, and Amadeus, Inc. in strategic planning, technology planning, development and public relations. She received an MSLIS from Simmons College, an MA in Italian from Middlebury College, and a BA in German from the University of Notre Dame.