About me
Rachel Fleming, MLIS, is the OER and Equity Librarian at Irvine Valley College. She earned her MLIS from San José State University and is currently completing her first year in the CSU Channel Islands Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Equity and Justice (DELEJ) program. Over the past three years, she has helped build OER programs at two California community colleges and now leads campus work related to OER and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) implementation. She is the lead researcher on a mixed-methods ZTC Degree Feasibility Study, partnering with trained student researchers to gather and interpret empirical data on student navigation, discoverability, and access. Her work centers on intellectual freedom, equity, and open education as a pathway toward more democratic access to higher education.
