Assistant Archivist

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, February 2017-Present

Photographic Archives Intern

The Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, TX, September 2015 -February 2017

Library Page/Clerk

Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR, June 2010 - June 2015

Conservation Intern

The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, July 2012 - March 2014

Professional History

My Roles & Responsibilities

Skills

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Archival Processing
and
Arrangement

Digital Asset Managment

Conservation
and
Museum Studies

Career Highlights

Austin History Center

Managed 125 TB of digital assets at Austin History Center | City of Austin using Preservica and ArchivesSpace software developing a strategic plan for long term digital preservation.

Received Summerlee Foundation Grant for Art & Archives speaker series, a program hosted by Archivists of Central Texas (ACT) that provides a space for local artists to come together in conversation with archives and library professionals in order to explore how their practice engages with archival materials and historical narratives (2022).

Fundraising Chair and Co-Chair, Austin Archives Bazaar (2019 & 2021-2022).

Collaborated with AHC Staff in the development of preservation workshops focusing on personal archiving at the Austin History Center, for Stories from the South: An Archiving Series for the Family! at the Asian American Resource Center (2022), and the Austin Archive Bazaar (2016, 2018).

Created digital literacy program for Digital Inclusion Week (2018).

Received Summerlee Foundation Grant for panel program Fact Or Fiction: Developing Information Literacy which focused on how archivists' appraisal, arrangement, and outreach practices help shape historical narratives, and how historians use and interpret historical records in light of archival silences and oftentimes conflicting, biased primary source materials (2018).

Supervised interns with metadata remediation for 1000s of records

Blanton Museum of Art

Capstone Project: Strategic Plan for Digitization 2017

Society of American Archivists-UT Chapter

Disaster Relief and Triage Workshop 2017

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Web archiving using Archive-It software

Archival processing and arrangement

Audio digitization

Briscoe Center for American History

Curated work for Vietnam: Evidence of War exhibition on display at LBJ April 1-July 31 2016

Arranged and processed photojournalism collections including works by David Kennerly, Flip Schulke, and Shel Hershorn

Social media promotion of collections

Portland Art Museum

Paper Conservation Internship 2012-2014

Completed conservation treatment of works of art on paper and museum objects including prints by French artist Honoré Daumier

Condition assessment and reporting

Photographed collection materials for museum database records