Professional Involvement

Leadership & Service

• Diversity Committee Member, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL/ALA, 2018 – present
• Membership Committee Member, Society of American Archivists, 2017 – present
• Manuscript Repositories Section Vice Chair, Society of American Archivists, 2017 – present
• Manuscript Repositories Section Steering Committee Member, Society of American Archivists, 2015 – present
• Committee on Education Chair, Vice Chair / Chair-Elect, and Member, Society of American Archivists, 2013 – 2017
• Web Editor, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL/ALA, 2015 – 2017
• Membership & Professional Development Committee Member, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL/ALA, 2013 – 2017
• Task Force on Core Competencies in Special Collections Librarianship, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL/ALA, 2014 – 2017
• Awards Committee Member, Society of American Archivists, 2015 – 2017
• Archival History Roundtable Chair, Society of American Archivists, 2015 – 2016
• Web Committee Chair and Webmaster, Archivists of the Houston Area, 2012 – 2013
• Membership Chair, Society of American Archivists University of Texas Chapter, 2011 – 2012

Presentations & Publications

• “Born Digital Access Bootcamp” (workshop facilitator). Digital Library Forum. Henderson, NV, October 2018.
• “Asking the User: Incorporating User-centered Customizations and Features into Yale’s ArchivesSpace PUI.” ArchivesSpace Member Forum. Washington, DC, August 2018.
• “Born Digital Access Bootcamp” (workshop facilitator). Digital Archivists of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA, August 2017.
• “Stories We Tell with Students: Pedagogy and Process” (moderator). Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference. Iowa City, IA, June 2017.
• “Providing Access to Born-Digital Cultural Heritage.” Rare Book School (invited speaker). New Haven, CT, June 2017.
• “Complicating the Canon.” Yale Club of New York City (invited speaker), May 2017.
• “Collaborative Education for Providing Access to Born-Digital Cultural Heritage Material” (invited speaker). New England Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference. Worcester, MA, May 2017.
• “Born Digital Access Bootcamp: A Collaborative Learning Forum” (workshop facilitator). New England Archivists Spring Meeting. Hyannis, MA, March 2017.
• “From Papyri to Penguin Books” chapter in Collaborating for Impact: Special Collections and Subject Librarian Partnerships, The Association of College & Research Libraries, 2016.
• “From Survey Design to Hackfest: Reflections on Research-in-Practice for Born-Digital Access.” Society of American Archivists Research Forum. Atlanta, GA, August 2016.
• “What Do Students and New Professionals Want? Assessing Informal Educational Needs,” Archival Outlook, Society of American Archivists, May/June 2016.
• “Born-Digital Access Hackfest: Collaborative Solution-Building for Current Challenges,” Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, August 2015
• “Born-Digital Access in Archival Repositories: Mapping the Current Landscape Preliminary Report,” 2015
• “A Balancing Act: Collaborative Instruction in the 21st Century Special Collection,” Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference, Oakland, CA, June 2015
• “Career Development for New Professionals: Fellowships and Internships as Alternative Sites of Education,” Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference, Las Vegas, NV, June 2014
• “From Flows to Finding Aids: Processing the Houston Hip Hop Collections at the University of Houston Libraries,” Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, May 2013
• “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America” exhibition review for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) newsletter, Winter 2013
• “The Woman Behind the Curtain: Winnie Allen as Archivist,” Preserving Our Cultural Heritage Conference, Bloomington, IN, 2011

Honors

• Directors’ Scholarship recipient, Rare Book School, 2012
• Houston Endowment Graduate Fellow, University of Texas School of Information, 2011-2012
• Carolyn Hixson Harris Endowed Presidential Scholar, University of Texas School of Information, 2010-2011

Education

• Archives Leadership Institute, 2018
• Selected Yale University management courses:
  • Great Manager Program, 2017
  • Managing at Yale Essentials, 2016
  • Leadership Levers: Building Critical Strengths, 2016
• Society of American Archivists courses:
  • “User Experience Design and Digital Archives,” 2017
  • “Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives,” 2016
  • “Providing Access to Born-Digital Archives,” 2015
  • “Digital Forensics: Fundamentals,” 2015
  • “Arrangement and Description of Electronic Records Parts I and II,” 2015
  • “Digital Curation: Creating an Environment for Success,” 2012
  • “Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections,” 2011
• Project Management for Archival Processing, 2016
• Project Management for Yale Professionals, 2015, 2016
• “From Gutenberg to Google Books” workshop, Beinecke Library, 2015
• “ACRL Immersion” program on teaching information literacy, Yale University, 2014
• “Digitizing the Historical Record” workshop, Beinecke Library, 2014
• “Born-Digital Materials: Theory and Practice,” Rare Book School, 2013
• Rice University Humanities Research Center workshop on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), 2013
• University of Texas School of Information courses:
  • Archives, Records, and Preservation in the Modern World
  • Introduction to Archival Enterprise
  • Studies in the Book Arts
  • Rare Books and Special Collections
  • Issues in Museum Studies
  • Managing Information Organizations
• Scripps College, honors in Political Theory with a minor in English Literature
  • Senior thesis on political spaces, the internet, and language