Experience

Training

I'm new to freelance archival work, but not unprepared. I've trained in the archival pipeline through the industry's leading programs:

• Netflix Documentary Archival Research Training (DART), 2025
• Mentee & Member, FOCAL International — 2026 Mentoring Programme, with mentor James McDonald (Shanakee)
• Archival research training with Nina Gilden Seavey (2025) and Rich Remsberg (2026), Maine Media
• Speaker Series Coordinator & Member, Archival Producers Alliance
• Member, AIR and the Oral History Association
• Publisher, Winter Creek Press (handbound limited-edition books)
• Library Journal “Mover & Shaker” honoree

Before archival research

My path to archival research runs through libraries — most formatively as an outreach librarian in a corrections facility. That work required adaptability, persistence, and steady problem-solving. I served a wide-range of people, some of them in difficult circumstances and occasionally challenging to work with, but I earned their trust and provided consistent, excellent service. Along the way I supervised staff and managed large budgets and complex projects.

I also produced and edited twelve films for the library and hosted film screenings, introducing the filmmakers to their audiences at the corrections facilty and community libraries and drawing out the conversation between them — the kind of clear communication I bring to working with a production.

For a documentary production, I scanned magazines whose size exceeded a standard scanner. I sourced equipment that could handle the format and delivered ahead of the deadline — giving the film's design team time to enhance the images for the screen.

These are the habits I bring to archival work: resourcefulness, care, and follow-through.