Angela Gunder

CEO and Founder, Opened Culture

Dr. Angela Gunder is a transformative leader, speaker, and educator working to advance access to education globally. As the principal and founder of Opened Culture (OEC), a pioneering collaboratory and strategic consultancy dedicated to empowering stakeholders across the educational ecosystem to establish and sustain cultures of openness, she leads high-impact teams in solving the ubiquitous challenges facing the field in reimagining a more inclusive future of learning. Through leading-edge research, academic innovation, and community engagement, OEC guides institutions and communities in leveraging innovative strategies, pedagogies, and technologies to instantiate and sustain collaborative and engaged cultures of openness.

Prior to founding OEC, Angela served as the Chief Academic Officer and Vice President of Learning for the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), where she was responsible for leading the strategy and operations of a comprehensive portfolio of services and initiatives reaching educators at over 850 member institutions across the globe. This included guiding the Center for Professional Learning, the Research Center, strategic partnerships and consulting, grants, quality initiatives, programming and global events, and community engagement. From 2020 to 2024, she served as the OLC lead for Every Learner Everywhere, a solutions network funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation focused on advancing digital learning equity. In this capacity, she co-authored numerous open-knowledge products on high-quality digital learning, caring for students, and effective practices for culturally-responsive instructional design.