Jennifer E. Stertzer is Director of the Center for Digital Editing and Senior Editor at the Washington Papers. With the Papers of George Washington since 2000, Stertzer has served as project manager of the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, overseeing the conversion of legacy print volumes into a digital edition, developed Word-to-XML workflows, and is editor of the Papers of George Washington Financial Papers project. At the CDE, Stertzer consults on project conceptualization, technical solutions, workflow, editorial methodologies, and engagement strategies. She teaches Conceptualising and Creating Digital Editions at the University of Victoria’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute, serves on the faculty of the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, and is past president of the Association for Documentary Editing.

Kathryn Blizzard is the Communications Specialist and Research Editor for the Center of Digital Editing. She curates editorial content for use in outreach and publicity, and assists in editorial work. In addition to these responsibilities, Kathryn serves as the communications specialist for The Washington Papers. Before coming to the Center, Kathryn interned as an associate editor for the cultural magazine Gadfly Online, as a web communications editor for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and as the coordinator for the Virginia Shakespeare initiative, an eighteen-month long project organized in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.