Stephen Jacobs is the Director of Open@RIT, one of the first Open Source Program Offices at a university. A professor at RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media, he received the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring for 2019-2020. He’s an interdisciplinary scholar who works in several different areas that often overlap including Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture. Open Science, Digital Humanities, Game Design and History and Interactive Narrative. His Open Work has been funded by The Ford Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The UNICEF Foundation, The All Children Reading Grand Challenge, The Zero Project, The Linux Foundation, Red Hat Inc, Northern Telecom and AT&T. He is a member of the Higher Education Leadership in Open Scholarship (HELIOS Open) Member Advisory Committee.