RESUME
Full CV available upon request.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
March 2023 – Present
July 2019 - March 2023
2021 - 2022
2017 - 2020
January - June, 2019
2017 - 2019
October - December, 2018
July - September, 2018
June - September, 2018
February - June, 2018
2016 - 2018
2014 - 2016
Video Preservation Specialist, AVMPI, Smithsonian Libraries & Archives, Washington D.C.
Preservation Archivist, Blackhawk Films Collection, Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles, CA
Program Manager of Online Education, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Archivist, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Film Preservation Intern, Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles, CA
Contractor, Estate of George and Mike Kuchar, Los Angeles, CA
Media Conservation Intern, Getty Research Institute (GRI), Los Angeles, CA
Cataloging Intern, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles
Production Intern, Producer’s Library Service, Los Angeles, CA
Contractor, Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park/UCLA Preservation Lab, Los Angeles, CA
Film Assistant, Conner Family Trust, Los Angeles, CA
Administrative & Research Intern, Conner Family Trust, Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2019
2005
2004 - 2005
Masters of Library Information Sciences (MLIS), Dean’s Scholar
Media Archival Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Magna cum Laude
Contemporary Art History Major & Gender Studies Minor
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Visual Cultures Department / Study Abroad
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
2022
2021
2019
2018
Airtable Show & Tell Panel, AMIA Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Describing the Ken Kesey and Merry Pranksters Audiovisual Collection, AMIA Spring Online Conference
Knowledge Obsolescence in Audiovisual Preservation, No Time To Wait (NTTW4), Budapest, Hungary
Sustaining The Profession: Continuing Education, Professional Advocacy, and Equity Panel, AMIA Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
Bastard Film Encounter, Baltimore, MD
"Preserving Place: Moving the Bob Baker Marionette Theater,” Performance! Newsletter of the Society of American Archivists (SAA)
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater: Archiving with Oral Histories, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Annual Conference, Portland, OR
CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
AMIA Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
NTTW5 Online Conference
AMIA Winter Online Conference
AMIA Spring Online Conference
AMIA Annual Online Conference
NTTW4, Budapest, Hungary
AMIA Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
The Reel Thing XLV, Los Angeles, CA
Bastard Film Encounter, Baltimore, MD
AMIA Annual Conference, Portland, OR
BitCurator User Forum 2018, Los Angeles
The Reel Thing XLIII, Los Angeles, CA
Orphan Film Symposium, Queens, NY
AMIA Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
The Reel Thing XXXV, Los Angeles, CA
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2015
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Bash Scripting for Audiovisual Preservation, AMIA Webinar Series, January 25 – February 22, 2022
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS Fundamentals), SAA Online Course, November 8-9, 2021
Diving Deeper with Digital Preservation Tools Using the Command Line Webinar, NEDCC, April 24, 2020
ArchivesSpace and Airtable for Improved Workflow Management, SCA Webinar, December 11, 2019
Archivist's Guide to QuickTime, AMIA Conference Workshop, New Orleans, LA, November 28, 2018
Library Carpentry Workshop, YRL, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 24-25, 2018
Getting Started with GitHub, YRL, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 23, 2018
Improving Descriptive Practices for Born-Digital Material in an Archival Context, SCA Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, November 3, 2017
16mm Editing Workshop, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
History, Identification & Preservation of Motion Picture Materials, California Rare Book School (CalRBS), Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Intro to 16mm Filmmaking & Hand Processing, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
SELECTED PROGRAMMING
2022
2020 - 2021
2019
2018
2007 - 2012
2008
2022 AMIA Calendar of Online Continuing Education, AMIA Program Manager for Online Continuing Education
AMIA Quaranstream Webinar Series (Full List of Programming), AMIA Continuing Education Advisory (CEA) Task Force
Rewind & Hit Play Mini-Conference, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Archival Screening: Recently preserved material from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Audiovisual Archives & Library, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Curated Exhibitions, TARTINE, San Francisco, CA
Club Sandwich & Canyon Cinema present: A Night of 16mm Experimental Silent Films with live improvised score by EXTRA LIFE, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Club Sandwich Double Feature: Benjamin Smoke & Building a Broken Mousetrap, Two Films by Jem Cohen, Oakland Sol, Oakland, CA
Club Sandwich & Canyon Cinema present: 16mm Animations of Lawrence Jordan, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2019
2018
2017
2016
2012
No Time To Wait Travel Grant, NTTW4
Community Fund Travel Grant, AMIA
UCLA/Mellon Foundation Internship Project Recipient, Bob Baker Marionette Theater
George Blood Women in Audiovisual Archiving and Technology Scholarship, AMIA
MLIS Professional Programs Committee Travel Fund, Information Studies Dept., UCLA
Theresa and Roy Aaron Fellowship, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS), UCLA
Kress-Murphy Scholarship, California Rare Book School, UCLA
Feedforward Curatorial Residency, Liminal Space, Oakland, CA
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT
2016 - Present
2023
2019 - 2022
2017 - 2022
2021
2019 - 2021
2017 - 2020
Member, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
Grant Review Panelist, Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) Preservation Access Program
Co-Chair, Continuing Education Advisory (CEA) Task Force, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
Member, Society of California Archivists (SCA)
Grant Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 2021
Board Member, Al Larvick Conservation Fund
Member, Los Angeles Archivist Collective (LAAC)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Film — 8mm, Super8mm, 16mm, 35mm
Tape — ¼” open reel, DAT, 1” open reel, Hi8, miniDV, VHS, S-VHS, Betamax, BetacamSP, Digital Betacam, U-matic
Handling & Repair — rewinds, flatbeds, splicing (tape, cement, preservation), A-D strips
Archival Platforms — Airtable, ArchivesSpace, Axiell Collections, ContentDM, FileMaker, Omeka, data visualization applications
Open Source — Bash/Command Line, FFmpeg (beginner), RAWcooked, Open Refine, RegEx
Editing Software — Adobe Premiere, Avid, Black Magic Express
3D Rendering — Google SketchUp
Social Media — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Slack, Squarespace, Tumblr, Wix, Wordpress
PC & MAC Platforms — Adobe Suite, Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
VOLUNTEER WORK
2021 - 2022
2020 - 2021
2019
2018
2016 - 2017
2013 - 2015
Web Designer, Silent Movie Day
AMIA Online Pop-Up Shop Manager, Los Angeles, CA
Student Volunteer, Bastard Film Encounter, Baltimore, MD
Student Volunteer, Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive, School of Cinema Arts, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Co-Organizer, Home Movie Day, Los Angeles, CA
Volunteer, Home Movie Day, Los Angeles, CA
Cook (a.k.a. Volunteer Bicycle Mechanic), Bicycle Kitchen, Los Angeles, CA