Brandon Locke is the Program Officer for Community Cultivation at Educopia Institute, where he works across Edcuopia's affiliated communities (Library Publishing Coalition, Software Preservation Network, BitCurator Consortium, and MetaArchive Cooperative and fiscally sponsored initiatives. Working with these groups and consulting clients, he provides a range of services including governance development, facilitation, data governance, event planning, project management, and administrative support.

Brandon is also the founder and co-organizer of Endangered Data Week, an annual series of events to explore the power dynamics of data creation, sharing, analysis, and retention, and teach ways to make endangered data more accessible and secure.

His interests include academic ownership of the means of scholarly production, digital literacy, and representation and inclusion in digital cultural heritage, data curation and description. He was formerly Director of LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research), a student-focused digital research lab at Michigan State University from 2014-2019. Brandon received a Master of Arts in History and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013, and a Masters of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a concentration in Digital Curation in 2014.