Archivist - New Dance Alliance
2025-Present
Grant-funded project archivist for New Dance Alliance. Inventorying, processing, digitizing, preserving, stewarding material from nearly four decades of performing arts. Preparing materials for donation, generative projects growing from the archive. Developing, coordinating, and producing oral history project with artists, curators, and collaborators.
Digital Media & Archives Associate - LEIMAY
2024-Present
Leading the design and development of a Brooklyn-based performing arts archive with over 30 years and 30 TBs of audiovisual material. Cataloging media collections, processing and preserving digital material, and creating public programs. Utilizing VRA Core, EAD standards, and MARC fields in a customized digital asset management system. Training staff and interns on archival workflows and database management.
Co-produced LEIMAY Constellation Salon, technical producer for LEIMAY’s At Home presenting series, videographer/photographer for Incubator program and Outsight series.
Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow
Summer 2024
Vitalized interdisciplinarian dance studio archive for generative sustainability. Organized over 30 TB of data, processed over 700 digitized videotapes, developed public archive. Finalized taxonomy and structure for robust utility. Created manuals, guides, outlines and trained staff members on archival workflow. Produced video content from archival footage. Preserved material from Williamsburg’s longest running experimental art space, CAVE Gallery, and from the New York Butoh Festival, produced by CAVE-LEIMAY. Presented project developments for Dance/USA Archiving Convening with fellow cohorts, collaborating on performing arts archiving issues from indigenous knowledge practices to sustainable funding approaches. Contributed to the Dance/USA 2024 Impact Report and published several short pieces of writing on the project.
Project Archivist - Mill Valley Public Library
2023-2024
Curated a gallery exhibit and virtual StoryMap on Marin County’s queer history. Researched within the Library’s own archive as well as the GLBT Historical Society, SFPL Special Collections, and personal collectors to weave a hundred-year story ranging from lesbian communes, pride parades, a gay newspaper providing resources through the AIDS crisis, early internet drag queen families, and young activists.Conducted hours of oral history interviews with Queer Community Members, creating an intergenerational representation of LGBTQ+ experiences.
Published in Archeota Fall/Winter 2023
Co-Produced Winter Solstice Event with Muir Woods NPS with over 300 audience members
Co-Produced Mill Valley’s first Home Movie Day working with the Bay Area Home Movie Day Club
Co-curated exhibit honoring history of local Black achievers
Partnered with Miwok Tribal Council to present cultural heritage programs