Tilly Vriend (the Netherlands)
Making women and gender information accessible, visible and available has been the focus of Tilly Vriend's career since 1982. As Coordinator databases/Senior Project Manager at ALETTA, Institute for women’s history, The Netherlands, she managed many national and international projects, organized trainings and was a speaker at many conferences concerning the accessibility and visibility of information. Through these activities and her experience as (board) member of national and international networks in the field of women and gender information, she has acquired broad expertise and many contacts in this field. She has been an active ATHENA member since 2003. In 2006 she was the coordinator of the International programmer committee of the “Know How Conferences in Women’s Information”. As an active board member of WINE, the Women’s Information Network in Europe (a network that represents the majority of women’s information centres in Europe) she intends to contribute to the interests of and represent these centres within the board of ATGENDER. As project manager of the EU Fragen project (a subproject of QUING) she is working at the intersection of academia and information centres in the creation of a database of core feminist texts in Europe.