The Archives
Leadership Institute is proud to announce its ALI15 cohort!
We received applications from a diverse group of archival professionals working in institutions throughout the U.S. and abroad. Each applicant was evaluated by three
different Steering Committee members and scored based on their responses to a
series of essay questions. Each of our ALI15 cohort members have shown
exceptional leadership skills and potential, the ability to influence change
within the archival field, a strong commitment to the archival profession,
demonstrated professional organizational involvement and service, a
collaborative and innovative spirit, and representation and/or support of
diversity within the profession.
The
Program Staff, Steering Committee, and Faculty are all very much looking
forward to the 2015 Archives Leadership Institute.
Jefferson Bailey
Program Manager
Internet Archive
Jefferson Bailey is
Program Manager, Web Archiving Programs & Services at Internet Archive.
Prior to joining IA, he worked on strategic initiatives, digital preservation,
archives, and digital collections at institutions such as the Metropolitan New
York Library Council, Library of Congress, Brooklyn Public Library, and Frick
Art Reference Library and has worked in the archives at NARA, NASA, and
Atlantic Records. He has an MLIS in Archival Studies from University of
Pittsburgh and a BA in English from Oberlin College. He is active in SAA, IIPC,
and NDSA and has taught Digital Preservation in a graduate archives program.
John Bence
University Archivist
Emory University
John Bence is the University
Archivist at Emory University where he works in the Manuscript, Archives, &
Rare Book Library (MARBL). Previously, he was a Research Library Fellow in
MARBL and a Project Archivist in the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter
College. He serves on the Society of American Archivists’ Standards Committee
and Web Archiving Roundtable Steering Committee and is a member of the Society
of Georgia Archivists. John holds an MA in Archives & Public History from
New York University.
Steven Booth
Archivist
National Archives and Records Administration
Steven D. Booth is an
Archivist for the Presidential Materials Division at the National Archives and
Records Administration in Washington, D.C. An active member of the American
Library Association and Society of American Archivists, he is involved with
several diversity and recruitment programs including the Spectrum Scholarship
and Knowledge Alliance, and currently serves as co-chair of the SAA Awards
Committee. He holds a M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College.
Jennifer Brannock
Curator, Rare Books & Mississippiana
University of Southern Mississippi
Jennifer Brannock is
the Curator of Rare Books and Mississippiana at the University of Southern
Mississippi. She has a BA in Art History and a MSLS from the University of
Kentucky. Her professional interests include popular culture, gender and
sexuality in midcentury sleaze publications, and special collections outreach
and reference service.
Rachel Chatalbash
Senior Archivist
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Rachel Chatalbash is
Senior Archivist at the Yale Center for British Art, previously having held
positions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Northeastern University, and the
MIT Museum. She received her M.S. in archives management from Simmons College
and Ph.D. in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center. Rachel currently serves
as Co-Chair of the Regional Archival Associations Consortium and Recording
Secretary for the Museum Archives Section of the Society of American
Archivists, and is a former president of the Archivists Round Table of
Metropolitan New York, Inc.
Su Kim Chung
Head, Special Collections Public Services
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Su Kim Chung is Head
of Public Services in Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, where she is in charge of reference, instruction, and outreach. In
addition to her public service role, she also serves as curator for
entertainment, women, and LGBT collections. Prior to stepping into this role,
she spent fourteen years as Manuscripts Librarian in UNLV Special Collections.
She has also worked as an archivist for the Toyota Corporate Archives in
Torrance, California, and as a regional archives assistant in Special
Collections at the University of California, Irvine. She has served on numerous
SAA committees, including the editorial board of the American Archivist. Her MLIS is from UCLA, and she holds BA and
MA degrees in history from California State University, Fresno. She will receive her PhD in Information
Studies from UCLA in Winter 2015.
Jessica Farrell
Assistant Archivist
McDonald's Corporation
As Assistant
Archivist at McDonald’s Corporation’s Golden Archives, Jessica has led digital
content management and preservation for the company’s global collections since
2012. She proudly serves on the regional Chicago Area Archivists’ Steering
Committee and national Regional Archival Associations Consortium (RAAC) and has
put many volunteer hours into the Chicago Read/Write Library and Father Pfleger
Archives. She holds a BA in French from the College of Charleston, MLIS from
the University of South Carolina, and has been a Certified Archivist since
2013.
Rebecca Goldman
Head, Archives and Digital Initiatives
La Salle University
Rebecca Goldman is the Head of Archives and Digital Initiatives
at La Salle University's Connelly Library. She holds a MSLIS from Drexel
University and is completing a MA in Public History at La Salle. Rebecca is the
founder of the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Students and New Archives
Professionals Roundtable and currently holds leadership positions in SAA and
the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.
Adrien Hilton
Processing Archivist
Rare Book & Manuscript Library,
Columbia University
Adrien Hilton is the Interim Head of Archives
Processing at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University.
Prior to Columbia, she worked as an archivist at NYU and the Redstockings
Archives for Action. Adrien holds an MLS from Queens College and a BA in Social
Thought and Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Rachel Howard
Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Louisville
Rachel Howard is Digital Initiatives Librarian at the
University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections. She received her
MLIS from the University of Washington and a BA in history from the University
of Notre Dame, and has worked on metadata and digitization of archival
collections for the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, Smithsonian
Institution’s Global Sound, Cornell University’s Global Performing Art
Consortium, and University of Washington and Museum of History and Industry
(Seattle)’s King County Snapshots.
Anne Jenner
Pacific Northwest Curator
University of Washington Libraries
Anne Jenner is Pacific Northwest Curator in Special
Collections at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. She holds an M.A. in Scandinavian Languages
and Literature from the UW and an M.L.I.S from the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign. Anne was director of
Archives and Special Collections at North Park University in Chicago from 2007
to 2012 and joined the UW Special Collections in summer of 2012.
Sarah Keen
Head of Special Collections and
University Archivist
Colgate University
Sarah Keen is the Head of Special Collections &
University Archivist and Associate Professor in the Libraries at Colgate
University in Hamilton, New York. Previously she worked at the Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University and at the Sophia Smith
Collection at Smith College. Sarah is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Archives Conference and the Society of American Archivists. She earned her B.A.
from Alma College (Alma, MI) and her M.S.I. with a specialization in archives
and records management from the University of Michigan’s School of Information.
Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts
Special Collections Instruction
Librarian
DePaul University
Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts joined the Special
Collections and Archives Department at DePaul University in 2001 as the
archivist for the DeAndreis-Rosati Memorial Archives, the Records of the
Western Province of the Congregation of the Mission. Over the past fourteen
years, her responsibilities have evolved as the department expanded its
programs and services. She currently serves as a Special Collections
Instruction Librarian. From 2011 to 2013 she was the Chair of the Chicago Area
Archivists (CAA) Steering Committee and is currently the Chair of the 2015 CAA
Archives Crawl Working Group.
April Miller
Program Lead
World Bank Group Archives
April Miller is currently the Program Lead for the
Archives of the World Bank Group in Washington, DC. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English
Literature from the University of Calgary and a Master’s of Archival Studies
(MAS) from the University of British Columbia.
She was a Government Records Archivist at the (then) National Archives
of Canada, where she was responsible for a portfolio of fifteen federal
government departments and agencies. She
is an active member of the Association of Canadian Archivists, as well as the
International Council on Archives’ Special Interest Section on International
Organizations.
Virginia Millington
Director, Recording & Archive
StoryCorps
Virginia Millington is the Director of Recording &
Archive at StoryCorps. In addition to working closely and collaboratively with
the Library of Congress and other major institutions, Millington currently
oversees the StoryCorps @ your library program, a national effort, created in
partnership with the American Library Association, to provide public libraries
with the tools and resources to record the stories of their communities. She
has previously held positions at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Walker
Art Center, and she received her MLS from the Pratt Institute.
Christie Peterson
Records Management & Digital
Archivist
The Johns Hopkins University
Christie Peterson has been Records Management
Archivist for Johns Hopkins University’s Ferdinand Hamburger Archives since
September 2012. In that role, she is responsible for records management,
collection development and accessioning for the university archives, as well as
the acquisition, processing, preservation and delivery of born-digital
materials in the university archives and manuscripts. She previously worked as
an archivist in the Princeton University Archives, as a project archivist with
a congressional papers collection at Bates College, and as a graduate student
assistant at the Bentley Historical Library. She received her MIS from the
University of Michigan. Prior to graduate school, she honed her interviewing
and records review skills as an investigator for the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
Caryn Radick
Digital Archivist
Rutgers University
Caryn Radick is digital archivist at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has an MLIS from Rutgers
University and an MA in Victorian Literature from the University of Nottingham.
She is an active member of MARAC and SAA and has published articles in The
American Archivist and Provenance.
Amanda Ross
Archives Specialist (Data Standards)
National Archives and Records
Administration
Amanda Ross is a Data Standards Specialist at the
National Archives and Records Administration.
In this role, she serves as Coordinator to the Social Networks and
Archival Context cooperative project.
Previously, Amanda worked on the Nixon-era White House Tapes. She has also led archival and digitization
initiatives at the Forest History Society and the Avery Research Center at the
College of Charleston. Amanda holds an
MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bonnie Marie Sauer
Archivist
National Archives and Records
Administration
Bonnie Marie Sauer is a Senior Archivist with the
National Archives at New York City. Prior to joining the National Archives, she
was an Archivist with The Winthrop Group where she processed the papers of
Congressman Peter W. Rodino and advised clients how to manage their archival
holdings. She completed her internship at the New York Public Library's Billy
Rose Theater Collection. Before earning her MLIS and certificate in Archives
and Records Management from Long Island University in 2006, Bonnie worked as a
Museum Technician for the Nassau County Museum System; Collection Manager and
Development Associate for The Smithtown Historical Society; and Public
Relations Director for The Smithtown Library.
In her current position, Bonnie serves as Processing Team Lead, Intern
Coordinator, and advises on system integration in offices around the country
for NARA’s enterprise systems.
Nathan Troup
Assistant Director for Records
Management
Missouri Office of the Secretary of
State
Nathan Troup, CA, CRM, is the Assistant Director for
Records Management at the Missouri Office of the Secretary of State having
previously served as the Senior Records Analyst and an Electronic Records
Archivist. Troup received his MLIS from Kent State University in 2005, Masters
in History with a specialization in Public History from Wright State University
in 2008, and a Certificate in Digital Information Management from the
University of Arizona in 2011. Reporting to the State Archivist he oversees the
development of records retention schedules for state executive agencies, the
State Records Center and Imaging Section.
Meg Tuomala
Assistant Archivist
Gates Archive, Seattle, WA
Meg Tuomala is an Assistant Archivist at the Gates
Archive in Seattle, WA where she leads the arrangement and description process
track, managing the processing of Gates Archive collections. The Gates Archive
is the trusted custodian of the personal and philanthropic archival collections
of the Gates family. Previously, Meg was
the Electronic Records Archivist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where she managed efforts to acquire, preserve, and provide access to
born-digital special collections and archival materials. She holds an MSLS with
a concentration in Archives and Records Management from the School of
Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and is a certified archivist. Meg is currently serving on the Society of
American Archivists’ Standards Committee (2013-2016, co-chair 2014-2016) and
the Privacy and Confidentiality Roundtable Steering Committee (2014-2016).
Sandra Varry
Heritage Protocol and University Archivist
Florida State University
Sandra is the Heritage Protocol & University Archivist at Florida State University and was Senior Archivist at the University of Central Florida’s Special Collections & University Archives from 2009-2013. She received a BA in Studio Art and MLIS from the University of South Florida, an MFA in Photography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and became a Certified Archivist in 2013. Sandra taught traditional and digital photography for 13 years and is especially interested in historic photographic collections. She is currently the President of the Society of Florida Archivists and the Society of American Archivists’ Key Contact for Florida. She is also a mentor as part of SAA's Mentoring Subcommittee.
Casey Westerman
University Archivist
Wayne State University Library of Labor
and Urban Affairs
Casey Westerman has been the University Archivist of
Wayne State University since 2011. He previously served as the Technical
Processes Archivist of Cornell University's Kheel Center. He is a Certified
Archivist, a steering committee member of SAA's Regional Archival Associations
Consortium, a board member of the Michigan Archival Association, and the
president of the Metro Detroit Archivists League. He holds an MLS from the
University of Illinois and an MA in English Literature from the University of
Georgia.
Stacie Williams
Learning Lab Manager
University of Kentucky
Stacie Williams is the Learning Lab Manager at the
University of Kentucky's Special Collections Research Center, coordinating
archives internships, and additionally teaches in UK’s School of Library and
Information Science. She previously worked at Tufts University's Digital
Collections and Archives, and Harvard Medical Library's Center for the History
of Medicine. In 2013, Williams, with scholars from Duke University and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented at SXSW about ways that information
professionals can influence grassroots activism on Twitter, and she has
published on cyberracism and information literacy. She is a 2010 ALA Spectrum
Scholar who holds an M.S. in library science with an Archives Management
concentration from Simmons College, and a B.A. in journalism from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Christina Zamon
Head of Archives and Special Collections
Emerson College
Christina Zamon is the Head of Archives and Special
Collections for Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She previously served as the archivist for
the National Press Club and previously worked at the Frick Art Reference
Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
She received her MA/MLS from the University of Maryland and is an active
member of SAA and the New England Archivists.
Her book, The Lone Arranger: Succeeding in a Small Repository was
published by SAA in February 2012.
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| Members of the ALI15 cohort, taken June 2015 |
