Leadership & Service
- 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
- Yale 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