Katherine Fletcher
Product Director, SafeInsights at OpenStax, Rice University
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Fletcher is a product and ethics leader with 13+ years of experience shaping equitable educational technology at OpenStax and Rice University. She began as a software developer and evolved into roles including project manager, technical director, and director of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics, building product roadmaps and user-centered teams that serve millions of students. Katherine led the overhaul of Connexions, created an open remixing and publishing API during a Shuttleworth Fellowship, and launched OpenStax Tutor as a platform for personalized learning. Her work blends hands-on engineering, UX advocacy, and policy-minded ethics to operationalize fairness across algorithms, products, and workplace culture. She also has a research M.S. in computer science and a track record of securing SBIR funding and building advisory boards that bridge academia, industry, and open education.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Rice University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
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novel7
aloha7
javascript6
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legend4
rails4
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ruby4
mortar3
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
oerpub/sf-demo-book
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:64 commits in 1 month
oerpub/documentation
Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 1 month
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