The ALI15 Cohort

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.

Members of the ALI15 cohort, taken June 2015