Redefining the Future of Peer Review: Black Stripe’s Community-Centered Practices and Their Impact on Open Access and Diverse Submissions

Redefining the Future of Peer Review: Black Stripe’s Community-Centered Practices and Their Impact on Open Access and Diverse Submissions

Mikayla Lee, MPS Publishing student, George Washington University

This presentation will start by discussing the ethical responsibilities of scholarly journals in promoting and fairly representing marginalized voices. I will go on to examine how community-centered peer review practices can support the publication of work by Black and LGBTQ+ scholars, based on Black Stripe’s philanthropic grant funding approach. Finally, I will explore practical strategies for making scholarly and literary content by Black and LGBTQ+ scholars accessible to diverse audiences while also building a sustainable model, drawing from Black Stripe’s collaboration with the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing and other open access industry trends.

Mikayla Lee is a former high school English teacher who is in their final year of the MPS Publishing program at George Washington University. She is also the E-Publishing Lead for the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing. Mikayla specializes in ethics, digital publishing, and user experience design and has a passion for evaluating diverse voices in modern multimedia with the goal of making the publishing industry more accessible and representative of Black, queer, and female-identifying populations.