At the time of the summit, Veronda J. Pitchford was the Director of Membership and Resource Sharing for the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS), a resource sharing state agency serving multi-type libraries in northern and western Illinois, where she managed eRead Illinois on the Baker & Taylor Axis 360 platform and the multi-use, statewide and geolocated BiblioBoard ebook platform with content and curation partners such as the Independent Publishers Group, the Chicago Children’s Museum and Publisher’s Weekly. In November 2018 she became the Assistant Director at the Califa Group. Veronda works nationally with library consortia, vendors and publishers to position libraries as the purveyors of econtent in the communities they serve. She was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2005 and received the 2018 Cathleen Bourdon Service Award administered by the Association of Specialized, Government and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASGCLA). She has a master’s degree in library and information science from North Carolina Central University, a historically black college in Durham, North Carolina.