Lisa McKenney is the Executive Director of the Allegany County Library System.  With over thirty years working at all levels of the organization, Lisa is just as excited now about the opportunities to improve our communities through libraries as she was when she started.  Lisa has a Master of Education degree from Frostburg State University and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Drexel University.

Gene Homicki is co-founder and CEO of myTurn.com, pbc, a public benefit corporation providing digital infrastructure for product reuse, lending, rental, and circular asset management. He co-founded the West Seattle Tool Library before building myTurn into a platform used by community reuse programs, public libraries, universities, municipalities, healthcare providers, enterprises, and power utilities across 23 countries. His work focuses on what it takes to move reuse from pilot programs to durable, measurable systems at scale.

Jenn Kim is one of two co-directors at the Station North Tool Library, a nonprofit tool-lending library and community hub whose mission is to make tools and skills accessible to Baltimore City residents through sliding-scale memberships and classes in woodworking, home care, crafts, and more. Jenn believes in the importance of a sharing economy and is extremely proud to work for an organization that is both people-centered—prioritizing equity across all of its programming—and people-powered, with over 120 regular volunteers and teachers who support day-to-day operations, allowing the Library to be approximately 70% financially self-sufficient.

In addition to facilitating the Library’s ongoing programs and services, Jenn is working to expand its repair program through Fix-It Fairs and repair clinics across the city in partnership with Baltimore City’s Department of Public Works. At the core of this work is the belief that the more we share, the more we have—and that people are our greatest resource.