Digital Curator
July 2022-Present

• Leading digital interpretation and digital humanities across all museum platforms

• Developing policy and guides for digital interpretative content creation and the digital humanities

• Researching effective digital outreach and strategy for diverse Museum visitors, virtually and in person

• Writing and designing original publications, articles, essays, and interactive experiences for the Museum’s digital channels and platforms

• Leading the planning, production, and implementation of original and adaptive digital exhibitions and online initiatives

• Collaborating across the Smithsonian Institute on enterprise-wide digital experiences and initiatives

• Representing the museum internationally at conferences, workshops, talks, and courses

Digital Collections Program Manager
May 2018-June 2022

• Coordinating with Houghton and Harvard Library colleagues to plan, prioritize, and manage projects to digitize archives, manuscripts, rare books, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and other special collections materials

• Supervising a staff of 1 FTE involved in facilitating the digitization of material ordered by library users

• Creating metadata for digital projects

• Soliciting digital project proposals and coordinating processes to set digitization priorities

• Working across institutions to promote the Houghton's digital collections

• Forging relationships with outside institutions to pursue collaborative digital projects

Metadata and Digitization Lead  July 2016-May 2018

• Managing digitization workflow for almost one million records across 74 collection

• Coordinating description decisions and scanning processes across multiple archives in collaboration with archivists and curators with diverse perspectives

• Enhancing folder level metadata to reflect richer cultural and historical detail

• Supervising six student workers in scanning and quality control

• Overseeing copyright, fair use, and other access documentation for all newly digitized records

• Blog writing, design, and management of #Umbrasearch

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Graduate Assistant
October 2015-June 2016
Processing Assistant
August 2015-October 2015
Exhibit Curator
January 2014-May 2014

• Processing of sheet music collections

• Research and writing for the "Archival Spotlight" feature in Black Camera

• Leading discussions and tours of the archives for undergraduate and graduate students

• Assisting visiting researchers with reference and collections information

• Research and writing for film screening proposals

• Contacting rightsholders for film screenings

• Curating "Still: The Art of Adele Stephenson," an exhibit combining the multi-media film inspired art of Adele Stephenson with the BFC/A's film poster holdings

Archival Assistant
August 2015-May 2016

• Cataloging new acquisitions in TMS  

• Digitizing and transcribing oral history records from cassette tape

• Audio editing, transcription, research, and writing for "A New Place to Roost: The Lake Monroe Oral History Project"

Programs Director - October 2014-June 2015

• Serving as Managing Editor for Marquee Magazine with responsibilities including

  • design layout

  • contributor correspondence

  •  staff writing

  • image research from archival collections

• Organizing the 2015 Theatre Conclave Tour with responsibilities including

  • negotiating and confirming tour dates for over 20 historic theaters in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

  • negotiating transportation and dining contracts in multiple cities 

  • designing and writing a commemorative tour guide

  • managing the on-the-ground tour experience for 85 attendees

Graduate Assistant August 2011-May 2013

• Collaborative design and writing for multiple exhibits

• Partial processing for numerous collections including manuscript, sheet music, ephemera, and audio recordings

• Design of promotional materials for conferences and exhibits

• Donor interview recording and transcription