Reimagining Academic Publishing: Community, Knowledge, and the Future Beyond Academia | Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies

I originally joined the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) in 2014. I was in the third year of my doctorate program, when I was offered the position of social media editor. Although I was excited about the opportunity, I had no idea at that time how much this chance moment would change the trajectory of my career. Over the past decade, I found my passion: public scholarship and digital knowledge dissemination. When I finished my PhD in 2019, I made the conscious choice to leave formal academia to better focus on this passion and work adjacent to the academic institutions that no longer served me. Today, I am a NiCHE executive member and editor-in-chief of our blog, The Otter, and the rest of our website where our team of over twenty editors publish nearly every weekday. Although I hold other contracts, NiCHE is, as Rachel Jekanowski describes in “Editing the Environmental Humanities” (this issue), my personal “labour of love.”