LYDIAN’S PROJECT PORTFOLIO
OPEN COURSES
P2PU x NYU Tandon Future Labs Course: KEYSTONE: An Open Course for New Founders
Adapted a subject matter expert’s business expertise into an open curriculum. Designed for facilitation by any adult learner, regardless of prior knowledge.
P2PU Course: Writing for Change
Designed an open course for adults learning how to write grant proposals, applications, and op-eds. Eligible for course credit through College Unbound.
PRESENTATIONS + OUTREACH
Large Language Models in Clinical Practice: Use Cases, Ethics, and Harm Reduction. Presented at Penn AIbraries (Summer 2026). On the biases, fabrications, and other potential harms related to AI use in clinical practice, as well as strategic and evidence-based recommendations on thoughtful use, supplemented by a group activity evaluating three LLMs’ outputs.
Conjuring the E-Textiles Workshop: The Library Collective (March 2020). With A. Ackerly. On sewing electrical circuits in soft fabric and creating opportunities for library outreach.
AI Detection Software: Presented at AIbraries (Summer 2026) with S. Wolfson and S. Kirk. Designed a one-pager summary in Canva on the reliability, impact, and legal implications of using AI detection software in academic spaces.
Book Talk - Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary (Spring 2026). Penn Libraries. Organized and hosted a talk by Dr. Beans Velocci, historian of knowledge production about sex, gender, and sexuality and faculty in Penn’s department of the History of Sociology and Science, on their new book.
TOPIC GUIDES
The following P2PU topic guides aggregate courses and community practices on the most popular learning circle subjects. Collages designed in Figma.
SERVICE DESIGN
UGA x SCO Partnership: Well-Being Hub
Students at the Owens Library at the UGA College of Environment and Design identified a need for privacy, physical rest, and a space that explicitly centered students from undercommunicated backgrounds in its service design. In partnership with colleagues at the CED and UGA's Office of Student Care and Outreach, the resulting well-being hub addressed those needs with reservable spaces, sensory supports, research help, and a prominently displayed Dawg Ally certification, and it now appears as one of more than fifteen officially recognized well-being hubs across the UGA campus network.
P2PU's partner network spanned over 30 institutions across the United States, Western Europe, and East Africa, connecting public libraries, universities, and civic organizations through a shared open learning platform. As the team was fully distributed and the partner experience had grown organically over time, institutional knowledge about how partners moved from inquiry to sustained engagement lived largely in individual relationships rather than in any shared documentation. This journey map reconstructs that arc from first contact through KPI-aligned impact reporting as a framework for onboarding new team members, orienting prospective partners, and making the case to funders for the operational depth behind P2PU's community outcomes.
FACILITATOR GUIDES
The following P2PU facilitator guides are weekly agendas that facilitators can use to adapt online course materials to the learning circle format.
These guides support active learning through structured check-ins, activities, collective notes, and opportunities for reflection.
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