Acknowledgments

The editors are indebted to Anita Walz and her team at the Open Education Initiative at Virginia Tech for their time, talent, and expertise.

Editorial Team

Anita Walz, Project Manager and Managing Editor

Anita Walz is Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Open Education, and Scholarly Communication Librarian in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. She received her M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked in university, government, school, and international libraries for over 20 years. She is the founder of the Open Education Initiative at Virginia Tech and the managing editor of over twenty open textbooks adapted or created at Virginia Tech, many of which may be found by visiting https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/70959. She has provided overall planning, project encouragement and coordination, day-to-day management, coaching, problem-solving, oversight, and post-production marketing for this book.

Kindred Grey, Illustrator and Production Manager

Kindred Grey is the OER, Graphic Design, and Digital Publishing Specialist in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. She joined University Libraries after receiving her B.S. in Statistics and Psychology from Virginia Tech in 2020. Kindred has contributed to over twenty open textbooks, providing technical support on layout and design. Her main focus is publishing open textbooks that are visually appealing, accessible, student oriented, and technologically advanced. She illustrated this book and also led production efforts including accessibility and formatting for the PDF, EPUB, print, and HTML versions of the text.