Rebecca Nissen is a master's student of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University (BYU). She received a Communications BA in 2021 with an emphasis in journalism. Her current thesis research focuses on OER and OA adoption in universities. Before entering graduate school, Rebecca worked as a news reporter and PR writer where she published many articles for BYU and The Daily Universe. She has since worked as an editorial assistant and copyeditor for several openly licensed textbooks and is currently working as an instructional designer for BYU's Program Granite.