Archivist - New Dance Alliance
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, and oral history projects.
Digital Media & Archives Associate - LEIMAY
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
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
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
Co-Produced Mill Valley’s first Home Movie Day
Co-curated exhibit honoring history of local Black achievers
Partnered with Miwok Tribal Council to present cultural heritage programs
Film Archivist Intern - Canyon Cinema + Other Cinema
Trained on the preservation, curation, and screening processes of experimental 16mm film distribution.
Communications Specialist - SUA of University of California, Santa Cruz
Established the SUArchive to build institutional memory. Co-led a series of oral history interviews with Black students about their experiences on campus. Co-created a scholarship winning video to fund the student food pantry project.