Dr. Carol Ann Hicks is the Executive Director at Marshall Regional Arts Council. Dr. Hicks previously was an Associate Professor of English and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies and General Studies at Wiley College. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts Interdisciplinary with concentration in Theatre from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Dr. Hicks has two master’s degrees, the first in Theatre from Texas State University in San Marcos Texas, and the second in Educational Administration from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. She also has master’s level English and Speech courses from Fort Hays State, Hays, Kansas, and doctoral level Educational Leadership courses from Texas Tech University respectively. Dr. Hicks has worked at both Wiley and Jarvis Christian College, traditional HBCUs. She had been at Wiley University for seven years. Dr. Hicks’s dissertation is on The Creation of a Lubbock Community Theatre and her master’s thesis in Theatre was The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Creative Project. Dr. Hicks is one of the original adopters of free and open resources at Wiley College. She first became interested in Open Educational Resources as an Assistant Professor at China Incarnate Word University in Guangzhou, China, a part of the University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas. Since physical copies of teaching resources in English were hard to come by at China Incarnate Word University, the faculty utilized free and open resources as much as possible. This early exposure to OER’s gave Dr. Hicks an advantage and she served as an early proponent as Wiley College moved to the use of OER’s.Dr. Hicks has taught Education, English, Developmental Studies, Freshman Experience, Communication, Mass Communications, and Theatre courses at the college level.