The National Advisory Board of Imagining America is deeply grateful for the fantastic work of Jan Cohen-Cruz for co-founding PUBLIC, the IA journal and for being it's senior editor. Jan's unbounded enthusiasm, vision, and leadership defines what this online journal represents. She has worked ceaselessly to open and democratize scholarship to include the reflections of practitioners and engaged academics. An inveterate networker with deep roots in theater and performance, she has brought rare combinations of liveliness and intelligence, depth and range to these pages. This founding work has been both generous and critical, setting the foundation for the greater exercise of community cultural development and a more just, a more participatory democracy. Along with cofounders Kathleen Brandt and Brian Lonsway, a robust platform has been created for an IA e-journal surpassing limits and crossing borders. Thank you Jan Cohen-Cruz for this important work and your unflagging spirit.

—The IA National Advisory Board

As co-founders and co-design editors, we, too, wish to express our deep gratitude. We are grateful for Jan's invitation to share in her vision for a journal that would build on IA's commitment to public scholarship and break important ground in this field. She offered us an opportunity to explore and share with her ideas that would expand upon the forms, media and technologies of dissemination. Together with the support and investment of Syracuse University, the three of us were able to create and guide the journal you see today. Jan invited us warmly into the IA community, supported what at times may have seemed an insurmountable undertaking, and guided the editorial content of PUBLIC since its inception. As the journal embarks on a new chapter, Jan's vision for a public venue created for, with, and by the diverse community of engaged scholars and practitioners remains the core guiding principle of PUBLIC. Thank you for all that you have given both us and PUBLIC over the years.

—Kathleen Brandt and Brian Lonsway