**Alex Gil** is the digital scholarship librarian at Columbia University Libraries. He collaborates with faculty, students, and library professionals leveraging computational and network technologies in humanities research, pedagogy, and knowledge production. He is among the founders of several ongoing, warmly received initiatives where he currently plays leadership roles: co-director of the Studio@Butler at Columbia University, a tech-light library innovation space focused on digital scholarship and pedagogy; co-founder and moderator of Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, a vibrant trans-disciplinary research cluster focused on experimental humanities; senior editor of sx archipelagos, a journal of Caribbean Digital Studies, and co-wrangler of The Caribbean Digital conference series.