Speaker Information

Ruta Abolins

Ruta Abolins is the Director of the Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. She has over 30 years of experience working in moving image and sound archives.

Jami Judge Almeida

Jami Judge Almeida is a Technician in the Moving Image section at the Library of Congress’ National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. Prior to joining the Library in 2009, she worked for the Las Vegas Clark County Library District, interned at CNN’s Washington bureau library, and was Smartbrief.com’s taxonomy engineer. Jami primarily works with Copyright Collection items and has been a participant of the Library’s BIBFRAME pilot since 2015.

Robert Anen

Robert Anen was appointed the first post-graduate RML Fellow in September of 2019, and accepted an additional year-long term in September of 2020. He received his undergraduate degree in 2011 from Hofstra University in Film Studies and Production. He is a 2017 graduate of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. In 2016, he was featured in the New York Times article “A Lost Snippet of Film History, Found in a Home Movie Shot in 1964” for his part in the discovery of footage of a film installation created for the 1964 World’s Fair called “Think” by Charles and Ray Eames, tucked within the home movies of Edward R. Feil at the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archives.

Patricia Aufderheide

Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. She founded the School’s Center for Media & Social Impact, where she continues as Senior Research Fellow. Her books include Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (University of Chicago), with Peter Jaszi; Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press), and Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press). She has been a Fulbright Research Fellow twice, in Brazil (1994-5) and Australia (2017). She is also a John Simon Guggenheim fellow (1994) and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others.

Shawn Averkamp

Shawn Averkamp has specialized in data management and digital library development since 2007. Her work as a Senior Consultant at AVP has focused on exploring creative, user-focused solutions to a wide range of data challenges, from leading experimentation and assessment of machine learning tools for audiovisual metadata, to supporting supply chain analysis of cattle transactions and deforestation in Brazil, to mapping large-scale data migrations.Before joining AVP, Shawn served as Manager of Metadata Services, NYPL Labs at New York Public Library, where she oversaw metadata production and directed the development of metadata infrastructure for NYPL’s unique digital resources. Prior to joining NYPL, she supported metadata management, digital humanities, crowdsourcing platform development, and data curation at the University of Iowa Libraries as Data Services Librarian and Interim Head of Digital Research & Publishing. She also enjoys sharing her metadata knowledge and experience as an Adjunct Professor in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP) at New York University. She earned her MLIS from the University of Iowa and holds a BA in Music from Luther College.

Christian Balistreri

Christian Balistreri is a 2020 graduate of The L. Jeffery Selznick School of Film Preservation and co-founder of the Patricia Mellencamp Film and Television Archive housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is currently completing an MA in English at the University of Rochester, with a certificate of Advanced Achievement in Film Studies and Preservation. His foundations were cemented in self-taught undergraduate student archiving which has now progressed into higher education and professional archival practices.

Joy M. Banks

Joy M. Banks is a Program Officer at CLIR with primary responsibilities including the management and support of CLIR’s regranting programs: Recordings at Risk and Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives. Her professional background weaves through the LAM world with experience in cataloging/metadata, digitization, and project management.

Erin Barsan

Erin Barsan is an archivist based in New York. She currently works at the Pratt Institute School of Information as Program Coordinator of the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N): a Mellon-funded initiative that seeks to provide funding and support to cultural heritage professionals and institutions for digital preservation training. In 2017, Erin was one of four emerging professionals selected for the inaugural cohort of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) Art program. Erin also currently serves on the Program Committee for the annual meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG). She holds an MSLIS with Archives Certificate from Pratt Institute and a BFA from Columbia College Chicago.

Emily R. Bartusiak

Emily R. Bartusiak is pursuing her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. A proud Boilermaker, she previously earned her Bachelor and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue with a minor in Management. In addition to her academic research, Emily conducted seven summer internships at Apple, Lockheed Martin, Qualcomm, and Motorola Solutions. She currently investigates the application of machine learning to images, videos, audio signals, and flight trajectories for forensic, defense, and biomedical research.

Becca Bender

Becca Bender is the Film Archivist & Curator of Recorded Media at the Rhode Island Historical Society. She holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, and studied Film Production and Africana Studies as an undergraduate at Vassar College. Prior to becoming an archivist, Becca worked for many years as a documentary archival producer on projects such as the Emmy-nominated PBS series’   “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise” and “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.”

Charles Ramírez Berg

Charles Ramírez Berg teaches film studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  He has won numerous teaching awards there and has authored books and articles on Latinos in film, Mexican cinema, film history, and narrative structure in cinema.  In addition, he has served on the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress since 2010. He was an extra in Spy Kids and Slacker, and his last name was a visual plot point in The Dark Knight.

Christopher Bernu

Christopher Bernu is the Project Cataloguer for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Media Preservation Initiative, the mission of which is to assess, document, and preserve the time-based media artworks in the Museum’s permanent collection. His primary duties are the recataloguing, documenting, and rehousing of artwork components, as well as the creation of records and processing of digital files into the Museum’s digital archive and asset management systems. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Museum and Exhibitions Studies program. His previous experience includes archival and collection management projects for the Andy Warhol Film Project, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Howard Besser

Howard Besser is Professor of Cinema Studies and Founding Director of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation masters degree program (MIAP).  Besser has been involved in the early stages of many metadata projects including the Dublin Core, Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (Z39.87), the Metadata Coding and Transmission Standard (METS), and preservation metadata (PREMIS)
. He has written extensive on information policy issues, particularly how those affect communities with little political or economic power.

Ashley Blewer

Ashley works at Artefactual Systems as their AV Preservation Specialist, primarily on the Archivematica project. She specializes in time-based media preservation, digital repository management, infrastructure/community building, computer-to-human interpretation, and teaching technical concepts. She is an active contributor to MediaArea’s MediaConch, an open source digital video file conformance checker software project, and Bay Area Video Coalition’s QCTools, an open source digitized video analysis software project. She holds Master of Library and Information Science (Archives) and Bachelor of Arts (Graphic Design) degrees from the University of South Carolina.

Brian Block

Brian Block is currently a Project Researcher for the Media Preservation Initiative at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In this role, Brian has coordinated the Whitney’s effort to enhance its Time-Based Media documentation practices. Starting in 2018, he created new documentation templates for centralizing and analyzing TBM data and in 2019, he began utilizing these tools to generate research data about the entirety of the Museum’s TBM holdings. Brian is a graduate of University of California-Los Angeles (June 2018), where he received a Master of Library & Information Science degree with a specialization in Media Archival Studies. Brian has interned in the Film Department at the Museum of Modern Art and also worked as a Research Scholar in Library Special Collections at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library.

Bethany Boarts

Bethany Boarts is the Digital Imaging, SME at Iron Mountain Entertainment Services.

Martine Bouw

Martine Bouw is a documentalist and digital ingest employee at Eye Filmmuseum where she is in charge of ingesting the museum’s digital assets and registering new acquisitions for the library collection, while also working in the museum’s study center. She holds a master’s degree in theatre and film studies from the University of Antwerp and a degree in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam.

Débora Butruce

Débora Butruce is an audiovisual preservationist, researcher and cultural producer. She is devoted to audiovisual preservation since 2001 and has worked at the main institutions in Brazil, such as Cinemateca do MAM-RJ, Arquivo Nacional, Centro Técnico Audiovisual and in projects with Cinemateca Brasileira. She is a PhD candidate in Media and Audiovisual Processes at University of São Paulo, and her research focuses on film restoration and the digital turn in Brazil. She was a Visiting Scholar at NYU, in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program and has taken part in several international seminars, congresses and courses on audiovisual preservation and archiving, in institutions as British Film Institute, L’Immagine Ritrovata Film Restoration Laboratory, Cuba’s International School of Cinema and Television and Filmoteca Española. She also has extensive experience as curator of audiovisual collections and has done film programs for Interfilm – Berlin International Short Film Festival, Luso-Brazilian Film Festival of Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal) and World Cinema Amsterdam. Débora is currently president of the Brazilian Association for the Preservation of Audiovisual (ABPA) and has served on the ABPA Board of Directors since 2014.

Savannah Campbell

Savannah Campbell is currently Media Preservation Specialist, Video and Digital Media at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the Media Preservation Initiative project. She has previously been a Fellow in Magnetic Media Preservation at The Standby Program and has worked on audiovisual preservation projects for the Dance Heritage Coalition, CUNY TV, and Crawford Media Services. Savannah holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University.

Mariela Cantú

Mariela Cantú is an audiovisual archivist, artist, curator and researcher. She is dedicated to the field of audiovisual preservation, with a focus on video preservation. She holds a Master’s degree in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and a bachelor´s degree in Audiovisual Communication (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina). On video preservation, she has undergone specific training at Associação Cultural Videobrasil (São Paulo, Brazil), at the Lab La Camera Ottica (Gorizia, Italy), Media Burn Archive and Video Data Bank (Chicago, USA), and Cinemateca Boliviana (La Paz, Bolivia), while she has also attended the Film Preservation and Restoration School Latin America (CINAIN, Cineteca de Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovatta and FIAF in Buenos Aires, Argentina).   She has created the project Arca Video Argentino, an archive and database of Argentine video art.   She has been a professor at several Argentine universities, and an educator in a diversity of independent spaces and institutions.   She has been curator and coordinator of several exhibitions related to the contemporary audiovisual arts, and her editorial activities include writings and the compilation of publications about the audiovisual arts.   As an artist, she has been awarded and selected for different national and international exhibitions and festivals.   She is a member of RAPA (Red Argentina de Preservadorxs Audiovisuales) and AREA (Asociacion de Realizadors Experimentales Audiovisuales).

Carolina Cappa

Carolina Cappa (Buenos Aires, 1982) is an audiovisual archivist and media professor. She has just published “Nitrato argentino, una historia del cine de los primeros tiempos” (Argentine nitrate, an early cinema history), an illustrated catalogue and a compilation of essays as well as a open access web site, nitratoargentino.org, both on the research of the nitrate film collection preserved at the Museo del Cine “Pablo Ducrós Hicken” in Buenos Aires. She worked as a film preservation specialist at the Museo del Cine for the last 11 years and she was also head of the Cinemateca Boliviana film archive in La Paz, Bolivia, where she restored “El Bolillo Fatal”, a previously 1927 Bolivian lost film. She’s been a professor and researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires as well as other institutions. She now lives in Santiago de Compostela, Spain and works as a professor at the Archive programme in the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian.

Nicholas Carbone

Nicholas Carbone is currently the Media Preservation Specialist in film and slide works for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Media Preservation Initiative. In addition to his work there, he also is the media archivist for video artist Mary Lucier and supports curatorial projects at Artists Space. In the past, Nicholas has worked to preserve and project film collections at Bard College, preserved and organized video and slide material at the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, and helped to create catalogue raisonné numbers for the Andy Warhol Film Project at the Whitney. Nicholas is a 2017 graduate of the University of Amsterdam’s master’s program Heritage Studies: Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, where he also conducted an internship at the EYE Filmmuseum.

Karen Cariani

Karen Cariani is The David O. Ives Executive Director of the GBH Archives and GBH Project Director for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration with the Library of Congress to preserve and provide a centralized on-line access to content created by public media over the past 70+ years.  Karen has 30 plus years of television production, project and archival management experience and was project director for recent projects a such as Improving Access to Time-Based Media through Crowdsourcing & Machine Learning, National Digital Stewardship Residency, and Building Infrastructure and Capacity for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Past projects include the GBH Open Vault, Boston Local TV News Digital Library project and Project Director of the guidebook “Local Television: A Guide to Saving Our Heritage. She served on the National Stewardship Digital Alliance (NDSA) Coordinating Committee and the Levels of Preservation WG. She is active in the archive community and professional organizations and passionate about the use of media archives and digital library collections for education.

Karin Carlson-Snider

Karin Carlson-Snider is the Vault Manager at Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine.  She has been at the archive for almost 10 years during which time she has worked on three grant funded digitization projects. She is a graduate of the L. Jeffery Selznick School of Film Preservation and holds a BA in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a MFA in Digital Video Production from Governor’s State University in Illinois, and and a MA in Public History from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Kathleen Carter

Kathleen Carter is a Processing Metadata Associate for the University of Georgia Libraries’ Brown Media Archives. She received her MS in Library Science with a concentration in archives management at Simmons University.

Dolores Inés Casillas

Dolores Inés Casillas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She is also affiliated faculty with Film & Media Studies and Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on immigrant engagement with U.S. Spanish-language and bilingual media.  She is the author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy (NYU Press, 2014), which received two book prizes, and co-editor with María Elena Cepeda (Williams College) of the Companion to Latina/o Media Studies (Routledge Press, 2016) and co-editor with Mary Bucholtz and Jin Sook Lee (UC Santa Barbara) of Feeling It: Language, Race and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning (Routledge Press, 2018).

Kelly Chisholm

Kelly Chisholm has worked in film archives on both coasts and has been employed at the Library of Congress NAVCC in Culpeper since 2009. She has been in her current position as Head of the Archival Unit in the Moving Image Section since 2019.

Evelyn Cox

Evelyn Cox is a doctoral student in Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma where she obtained her MLIS as well as her Graduate Certificate in Archival Studies in 2018.  She obtained her undergraduate degree from UCLA and is a wife and mother of two. She is also a 2016-2018 SAA Mosaic Program Fellow, a 2018 Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellow, and an EASP Scholar. Evelyn is interested in community archives, collective memory, language revitalization projects for indigenous communities, and documentation of oral tradition. She has a passion for oral history programs and community memory preservation as well as a strong commitment to the digitization of at-risk material. She is currently a graduate assistant for Native Nations Center at the University of Oklahoma and volunteers at the Native American Language Archive at the Sam Noble Museum.

Dana Currier

Dana Currier has been with the Vanderbilt Television News Archive since 2002. Starting out writing short abstracts for each individual news story, she is currently the Metadata Specialist and Student Supervisor. She manages a team of student workers transcribing evening news broadcasts and uploading them into a database where users can orders clips.

Rachel Curtis

Rachel Curtis is a Digital Project Specialist at the Library of Congress and serves as the Project Coordinator for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. In this capacity, she manages the ingestion of preservation files and associated metadata into the Library’s archive, works with GBH on policy and strategy decisions, and coordinates Library staff on AAPB activities. Rachel holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Patricio Davila

Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University. He is also core member of the Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) project at York University. Patricio is also co-director of Public Visualization Lab (PVL). PVL is a networked lab (York U, OCADU, Ryerson U) and focusses on how visualization can operate as a critical design and media practice. A priority for the lab is to understand the ways that the representation of data is political as well as analytical, designerly and creative. A basic premise that guides PVL’s projects is that visualization is an assemblage that arranges people, things and processes and as such demands a commitment to ethics, accountability and meaningful participation.

Laura Drake Davis

Laura Drake Davis is a Digital Specialist at the Library of Congress in the Moving Image Section. In this role, Laura processes born-digital moving image content, develops new workflows for born-digital content and develops strategies for metadata capture and transformation. A certified archivist since 2007, Laura holds the Master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland College Park.

Steve Davis

Steve Davis joined the Vanderbilt Television News Archive in December of 2002 to work on the digitization of the collection from ¾ U-Matic tape. Previous to joining the archive, he was director of the Media Center at Augusta College, and a producer-director for PBS affiliate WSKG-TV for 14 years.

Lila Foster

Lila Foster is a film preservationist and curator. She is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Program in Communication at the University of Brasília with a project dedicated to the history of the Brazilian Amateur Film Festival organized between 1965 and 1970, in Rio de Janeiro. Her work focuses on surveying amateur and experimental production in Brazil, research published in journals such as Film History (USA), Aniki (Portugal), Vivomatografias (Argentina), among others. As a curator and programmer, she has participated in the festivals Curta 8 – International Film Festival Super 8 of Curitiba, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, (A Coruña, Spain), Tiradentes Film Festival and Mostra de Cinema de Ouro Preto. Lila is currently a member of Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Preservation board as Institutional Relations Director.

Rafael de Luna Freire

Dr. Rafael de Luna Freire is an associate professor in the Film and Video Department at Federal Fluminense University, Brazil, where he is in charge of the Audiovisual Preservation University Lab (LUPA-UFF), a regional archive dedicated to teaching, researching, preserving and promoting orphan films from Rio de Janeiro state. He has published extensively on Brazilian cinema history and his work seeks to bring academic studies closer to the field of audiovisual preservation.

Dana Driskel

Dana Driskel came to archiving via a side door. A professional filmmaker and head of production at UC Santa Barbara for many years, he researched at numerous state-side and international archives while doing nonfiction projects.  Figuring that if you don’t want to beat them, join them, Dana assumed the responsibility for UCSB’s Film and Media Archive in 2015 and also teaches an introductory course about film archiving twice a year.

Zackary Drucker

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist and cultural producer. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMa PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me, and a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show Transparent. The Lady and The Dale, her directorial debut for television, will premiere on HBO in early 2021.

Lisa E. Duncan

Lisa E. Duncan is the collections management archivist at the University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections.  Previously she worked as the archivist and special collections librarian at the University of South Dakota.  She has a MA in Information Resources and Library Science and BA in Anthropology and History from the University of Arizona.

Jon W. Dunn

Jon W. Dunn is Assistant Dean for Library Technologies in the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, where he oversees IT development and operations, including technical support, systems administration, software development, digital preservation, and digital collections services. He has been involved in the development of digital library systems for audio and video for over twenty years and currently serves as project director for Avalon Media System, an open source digital repository software system for audio and video access, and principal investigator for the Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) project, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He serves on the cabinet for Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative and also co-chairs the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium’s Audio/Video Technical Specification Group.

Jim Duran

Jim Duran started with the Vanderbilt Television News Archive in 2018, coming from Boise State University where he spent 10 years in Special Collections and University Archives. He is the Director of the Archive and is also the Curator of Born-Digital collections. Duran has master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and History, emphasizing in library administration, born-digital preservation and 19th and 20th century American history.

Skip Elsheimer

Founder of the A/V Geeks, Skip has been amassing tens of thousands of 16mm films and presenting them live to audiences around the United States. He has done over 220 live 16mm streaming shows during the pandemic from the basement of his house.

Ferrin Evans

Ferrin Evans is a Master of Information candidate at the University of Toronto.  He currently has two media archiving contracts at the university: at the Media Commons Archive and at the Sexual Representation Collection.  In the past, he has worked with the Gay Archives of Quebec, Inside Out Toronto, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Cinema Politica, and the MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, where he served on the Board of Directors.  He is currently completing an oral history-centered thesis about risk, desire, and loss on Fire Island during COVID-19.

Kyle Evans

Kyle Evans is responsible for global enterprise and partner engagement for mass tape migration projects across a wide range of industries including the media, entertainment and broadcast sector. Kyle gained expertise in data management and data distribution through his career in satellite imagery where similar challenges of data preservation, content access, distribution, metadata capture and data integrity are faced. Kyle holds an MBA from ECU and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Brian Foo

Brian Foo is an artist and computer scientist working in libraries and museums with a focus on the visualization of large collections of information and media for the public. He is currently a data artist at the American Museum of Natural History where he designs interactive exhibits using scientific data and research including the Museum’s first permanent exhibit on climate change. He was also the 2020 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress where he created Citizen DJ, a project that invites the public to make hip hop music using free-to-use audio and video material from the Library of Congress. His multimedia work has been exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York and the Museum of Art and Design and featured on NPR, New York Times, and The Atlantic.

Claire Fox

Claire Fox is a post­graduate fellow on the Regional Media Legacies (RML) project, where she provides support for hidden audiovisual collections on Long Island in New York state through collection assessments and resource-building. She is a 2020 graduate of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program at New York University, and she completed graduate internships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Emulation­-as-­a-Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) project at Yale University Library, IndieCollect, and the New Museum. Her thesis, Not Normalized: Born-­Digital Camera Original Video Formats in the Archives, focused her research on an examination of complex born-­digital audiovisual file formats. She continues to pursue research in digital preservation, time-­based media conservation, and community archiving.

Debra Fraser

Debra Fraser is General Manager of KMUW, NPR for Wichita, Kansas. She has spent the past six years at KMUW seeking out and creating collaborations with the community, media and public broadcasting stations across the state. She spent 25 years in news and as station manager at the NPR station in Houston. In Wichita, her goal for news reporting, engagement, fundraising and community partnerships is to make her medium-sized radio station behave like a large station, because she says Wichita deserves no less. Debra serves the local community volunteering for other non-profits and doing whatever she can to make Wichita even better. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Radio, Television and Film.

Monika Kin Gagnon

Monika Kin Gagnon is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal and researcher on Archive/Counter-Archive. She has published on cultural politics, the visual and media arts since the 1980s and curated archival media projects. These include: In Search of Expo 67 (2017) with Lesley Johnstone at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, including a program of digitally restored multi-screen films from Expo 67: Motion (1967), The Earth is Man’s Home (1967), and VR prototype of Man and Colour/Kaleidoscope; La Vie polaire/Polar Life (2014), a digital simulation of the 11-screen Expo 67 film, partnering the Cinémathèque québécoise and National Film Board of Canada with CINEMAExpo67; Theresa Hak Kyung Cha | Immatérial (2015) for DHC Art at Centre Phi; and Charles Gagnon: 4 Films (2009), and Korsakow film, Archiving R69 (2011).

Anne Gant

Anne is head of Film Conservation and Digital Access at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and current head of the FIAF Technical Commission.

Hannah Garibaldi

Hannah Garibaldi is a PhD student in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara, researching the influence of physical illness, injury, and disability on historical Hollywood film productions. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Film Studies from Chapman University. Hannah is professionally involved in audiovisual archiving, having worked at the Paley Center for Media, the UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections, and the UCSB Film and Media Studies Archive.

Alison Reppert Gerber

Alison Reppert Gerber oversaw the Smithsonian’s 2016 Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections and the 2019 Audiovisual Preservation Readiness Assessment (AVPRA)* that included updating and expanding the survey; an evaluation of current AV preservation practices in the various units; risk for permanent AV collection loss and a prioritization system for preservation. The resulting comprehensive data was instrumental in providing unquestionable evidence for the Institution to support audiovisual preservation needs.

Alan Gevinson

Alan Gevinson, Special Assistant to the Chief of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress, is the Library’s project director for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. He received a Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University, has taught in George Mason University’s graduate program in history, and co-authored History Matters: A Student Guide to History Online (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005); Library of Congress Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, Recorded Sound: An Illustrated Guide; and The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan. He is curator of the Library of Congress exhibition, Hope for America: Performers, Politics & Pop Culture and the media curator of The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom. He was associate editor of the American Film Institute’s Catalog of Feature Films, and project director and editor of the AFI volume Within Our Gates:  Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 (UC Press, 1997).

David Gibson

David Gibson is a Technician in the Moving Image section at the Library of Congress’ National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. David joined the Library in 2006 after receiving a Master’s degree in Moving image Archive Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. In his time at the NAVCC, he has had the opportunity to work on a variety of collections, ranging from the earliest paper prints to the latest video games.

Tanya Goldman

Tanya Goldman is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on 16mm media distribution and nontheatrical cinemas. Her dissertation examines the career of prominent nontheatrical film distributor Tom Brandon from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Leonardo Gomes

Leonardo Gomes is a recent graduate from Ryerson University’s Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management MA program. Currently, he is an Archive/Counter-Archive Research Assistant, working on the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre case study, while also acting as the project’s Student Liaison at Ryerson. His main research interests are early and early pornographic cinema, with a focus on production, circulation, reception, and technologies. He is also interested in the Third Cinema movement in Latin America, Soviet revolutionary cinema, and horror movies.

Ari Green

Ari Green is a first year doctoral student in Public History at NC State University. She earned her BA in history and MA in Public History from California State University, Sacramento. This summer, California Revealed in collaboration with the Association of Moving Images Archivists (AMIA) hosted Ari as an Audiovisual Preservation Intern. She inventoried and described audiovisual material from UC Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies and conducted quality control of files.

David I. Griess

David I. Griess is an artist and archivist studying Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York University. Their research focuses on DIY (do it yourself) community archiving, emphasizing documenting performance art actions. They believe that archives that are accessible and equitable can become a resource to aid in reckoning with past and present injustices.

Valeria Dávila Gronros

Valeria Dávila Gronros is a graduate student at the University of Alabama, where she is pursuing a Master of Library and Information Studies degree with a focus on audiovisual archiving. In addition to her BA in Cinematography from Fundación Universidad del Cine, Valeria earned a Certificate from the FIAF Film Preservation and Restoration School Latin America. She is currently working at Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP), where she is re-assessing a collection of film production elements and developing guidelines for the retention and deaccessioning of film holdings. Previously, she worked digitizing photographic and paper archival materials at OSULP and was an intern at Yale University Film Study Center, inspecting, inventorying, and cataloging films. Prior to moving to the US, she worked for several years in digital film restoration at Cinecolor Digital Argentina.

David Güera

David is a Research Scientist in the Video Computer Vision team at Apple, currently working on cutting edge AR/VR technologies that impact millions of users worldwide. Born in Barcelona, he received his Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. In 2019, he earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, where he primarily worked on digital forensics projects sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). His research interests include image and video manipulation detection, computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning.

May Hong Haduong

May Hong Haduong has served in the film archiving world for over 15 years. She has expertise on the complexities surrounding access to moving images, including the programming, cataloging, conservation, preservation, research and use of physical and digital elements. May Hong is the Senior Manager of Public Access at the Academy Film Archive, where she oversees access to the Archive’s Collection. Prior to serving at the Academy Film Archive, she was the Project Manager for the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBT Moving Image Preservation, a collaboration between the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest, which produces the Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival. She currently serves on the Legacy Project Advisory Committee and on the Board of Directors of the ONE Archives Foundation.

Siobhan C. Hagan

Siobhan C. Hagan holds her M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has worked in a variety of collecting organizations throughout her career, including the UCLA Library, the National Aquarium, and the Smithsonian Institute. She is currently the Project Manager of the Memory Lab Network at the DC Public Library. In addition to this, Siobhan is the Founder and CEO of MARMIA (the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive). Siobhan has been active as a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists:  she is Co-Chair of the Local TV Task Force, Co-Chair of the Regional Audio-Visual Archives Committee (also from 2013-2018), is a member of the Election Committee, and was an AMIA Director of the Board from 2015-2017.

Elizbeth Hansen

Elizabeth Hansen is the Interim Director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Returning to the organization after a seven-year hiatus, Hansen is focused on deepening the organization’s engagement with its users and contributors. Previously, she helped launch TAMI’s award-winning Texas Film Round-Up program in 2008 and managed the program until 2013. During her time away from TAMI, Hansen consulted on projects for the National Educational Telecommunications Association, the Stax Museum of Soul Music, and Kansas City PBS. Prior to her work with TAMI, she held positions at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the LBJ Presidential Library. Her film credits as an archival researcher include “Winnebago Man” and “See Know Evil.” Hansen holds a master’s degree in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Middle Tennessee State University. She is certified as an archivist through the Academy of Certified Archivists.

Ben Harry

Ben Harry earned a master’s degree in Moving Image Archive Studies from UCLA in 2006.  Ben has worked previously for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  His research interests include archival maintenance of audiovisual materials, digitization and access to archival materials, and historical records and research of radio, television, and the cinema.

Genevieve Havemeyer-King

Genevieve Havemeyer-King is the Media Preservation Coordinator at the New York Public Library, where she facilitates mass digitization of the Library’s audiovisual research collections. She is also a projectionist and analog liquid light artist, collaborating with musicians and expanded cinema collectives in and around NYC.

Dan Hockstein

Dan Hockstein is an Audio Preservation Engineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a Master’s student in Information Science at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science. He has served in the field of A/V Preservation with roles at vendors, museums, and educational institutions. His interests include inter-generational training and digital stewardship of A/V preservation knowledge, workflow development techniques, and finding the perfect bagel.

Libby Savage Hopfauf

Libby Savage Hopfauf is the Program Manager/Audiovisual Archivist at Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and Project Audiovisual Archivist at Seattle Municipal Archives (SMA) in Seattle, Washington. She received a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of the Arts in Creative Writing with a minor in Sociology from Western Washington University. She is passionate about creating resources that provide intuitive use of open-source tools, making the digitizing process accessible to archivists (with a wide variety of skill-levels) to ensure the sustainability of institutions to preserve their videotape and conquer the magnetic media crisis.

Charles Hosale

Charles Hosale is an archivist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, where his responsibilities include preserving and providing access to audiovisual records. His interest in preservation best practices, file formats, and digital processing spurs his participation in the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) and other organizations. He has worked in similar roles at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting/WGBH, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library Archives, and the Digital Content Management Section of the Library of Congress. He holds a MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Hillary Howell

Hillary Howell  is the Director, Premium Archival Services atIron Mounta in Entertainment Services.

Hannah Faith Hurdle

Hurdle has been working as the Library E-Learning Specialist at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock since July, 2020. She graduated with a masters degree in Library and Information Studies from The University of Alabama in May 2020. While at UA, she presented at the Discerning Diverse Voices Symposium in 2019 on “Examining Challenges to Access of Information: Services and Technologies for People with Disabilities.” Earlier this year, she was supposed to present at the Alabama Library Association’s Annual Convention (canceled due to Covid-19) on “Promoting Accessibility Services: It’s Time for Academic and Public Library Websites to Take Action.” Last month, she presented at the Mississippi Library Association’s virtual conference on “Affordable Learning Solutions: Promoting Online Library Resources and OER to University Faculty.” She currently sits on two committees at UALR. One focuses on Blackboard Ally while the other centers around open educational resources (OER).

Peter Jaszi

Peter Jaszi is a Professor Emeritus at American University Law School, who writes and lectures about copyright law in historical and cultural contexts.  He was a founder of the school’s Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and its Program on Intellectual Property and Information Justice. Having served as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Professor Jaszi remains a member of its journal’s editorial board.  During 1993, Professor Jaszi served on the Librarian of Congress’s Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit, and from 1994 to 2000, he was a principal  organizer of the Digital Future Coalition.  In 2007, he received the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award.   He is a specialist in the law of fair use, and coauthored Reclaiming Fair Use (2d. edition 2018) with Patricia Aufderheide.

Jackie Jay

Jackie Jay received her MLIS with a focus in archival studies and imagining technology as well as a graduate certificate in archival management from the University of North Texas. She previously worked at Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) as a preservation technician where she built her digitization skills, most significantly in ¾” U-matic and ½” open-reel videotape.  Jackie has been the videotape digitization instructor for all three rounds of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship. She teaches a Digital Assets course she developed for Diablo Valley College where she introduces care and handling of archival materials, digitization of two-dimensional objects with flatbed scanners, metadata, and uploading digital assets to a DAM to community college students in the Library Technologies program. Jackie has developed an AV Preservation course that she will be teaching for the University of Alabama’s MLIS program in Spring 2021. She is the owner of Farallon Archival Consulting LLC in San Francisco. Jackie specializes in analog and digital videotape transfer and archival curriculum development. Jackie is a member of the AMIA Continuing Education Advisory Task Force.

Nathan Jones

Nathan Jones is relatively new to his role as Curator of Television News Collections. In his six years at Vanderbilt, he has transitioned from medical librarian, to archivist. Archivist by heart, librarian by training, he is happy to have found his place in Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Nathan’s other past archival experience includes work in a presidential library and archive as well as, establishing the corporate archive of a major food manufacture. His professional interests include: media preservation, misinformation, propaganda, and information literacy. Nathan resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his partner and their very spoiled Norwegian Elkhound, Bjorn.

Michael Kamins, NMPBS

Michael Kamins is the Project Director for the New Mexico Public Media Digitization Project. This project is an innovative statewide preservation and digitization project funded by a CLIR Hidden Collections grant. Michael is the Executive Producer for Arts and Cultural Affairs at New Mexico PBS in Albuquerque.

Casey Davis Kaufman

Casey Davis Kaufman (she/her) is Associate Director of the GBH Archives and Project Manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. In her role, Casey supports a team that includes a repository manager, web developers, outreach staff, and paid interns to undertake collections management, fundraising, access, curatorial work, metadata management, engagement, and special projects. Casey is also Project Manager for the University of Tennessee Libraries’ “Rising from the Ashes: The Chimney Tops II Wildfires Oral History Project.” Casey has served on the AMIA Board of Directors (2017-2019) and co-founded AMIA’s Continuing Education Advisory Task Force, the Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship Task Force, and the Advocacy Committee of the Board. She is also Co-Chair of the AMIA Oral History Committee. Casey is deeply committed to equity and inclusion in the AV preservation field and to addressing the climate crisis, the greatest threat to our profession, to humanity, and all life. Casey received her MLIS from Louisiana State University and currently works remotely from her home in Murfreesboro, TN, with her canine assistant Romsey.

Patricia Kenny

Patricia Kenny is the Director, Global Head of Strategic Accounts at Iron Mountain Entertainment Services.

Nick Krabbenhoeft

Nick Krabbenhoeft manages the digital preservation program at NYPL and teaches digital curation classes at the Pratt Institute. He’s interested in automation, OAIS, improving workflows, and teaching those topics.

Bill Kramer

Bill Kramer is currently the Director and President of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures—the world’s premier institution devoted to the celebration and exploration of the past, present, and future of the motion pictures. In this role, Kramer oversees all aspects of the project’s management, staffing, design, curation, fundraising, and creative direction. This position is a return to the Museum for Kramer, as he previously served as the project’s Managing Director of Development and External Affairs for five years, successfully raising $250MM to move the project into construction and managing the project’s public approvals and planning process. Kramer also has served as the Vice President for Development and Strategic Planning for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), has lead capital and comprehensive campaigns for the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and has served in senior fundraising and external relations positions at the Sundance Institute, Columbia University School of the Arts, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Bill holds a Master of Urban Planning and Public Administration degree from New York University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Anna Krentz

Anna Krentz is the archivist at Ryerson University’s Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre. She holds an MA in Film and Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, also from Ryerson University, with additional academic education in History at the University of Toronto and St. Francis Xavier University. Her research interests range from vernacular photography, visual culture, and early film to 1920s cultural history and, most recently, patient-centered histories of illness and disability.

Andrea Leigh

Andrea Leigh is Moving Image Processing Unit Head at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation. Previously, she was a cataloger at the UCLA Film & Television Archive from 2000-2008, and held positions at the UCLA Library, Cal State University, Northridge, Walt Disney Company, and Creative Artists Agency. She has an M.L.I.S in Information Studies and B.A. in Theatre Arts from UCLA. She is currently serving her second term as an AMIA Director of the Board.

Shaun Lile

Shaun is the Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He has worked in television and film for over 20 years and brings his experience to AWS.  Shaun has an in depth understanding of the end to end process of creating, delivering and archiving feature films and television content.

Heather Linville

Heather Linville is the Motion Picture Laboratory Supervisor at the Library of Congress’ National Audio Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC). Heather manages NAVCC’s film digitization and 35mm black and white photochemical operations. Prior to arriving at the Library in 2018, Heather was a Film Preservationist at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles for 14 years. She holds a MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated from the George Eastman Museum’s L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation certificate program.

Hugo Ljungbäck

Hugo Ljungbäck is a Swedish video artist, film curator, and media scholar. His research focuses on the intersection of video art, media archaeology, and the archive, and examines the materiality of the moving image and its processes of mediation. He has presented his research in international journals and conferences, and his videos have screened at international film festivals and galleries. He is an MFA Candidate and Merit Fellow in Studio Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Anne Loos

Anne Loos earned her MSIS from University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information in May 2020. During her graduate studies, she gained experience in audiovisual archiving and preservation through her work as a film digitization volunteer at Texas State Library & Archives Commission, the Audiovisual Archives Intern for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at University of Texas at Austin, and Post-Production Film Archive Intern for Lucasfilm, Ltd. at Skywalker Ranch. In November 2020, she starts her new position as the Audiovisual Archivist at North Dakota State Archives within the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Kelley Lynch

Kelley is a Ph.D. student at Brandeis University working on the CLAMS Project.

Gregory Maratea

Gregory Maratea came to Iron Mountain Entertainment Services in 2015 from a career in post production where he specialized in producing DI/ Finishing, as well as film remastering and digital restoration. Taking his knowledge of workflow and processes, Maratea and the IMES Technology team create client solutions ranging from the migration of end-of-life media assets to integration with the latest cloud technologies to looking forward to wide scale virtualization of systems and software. He is a leader on a team that drives towards exceeding customer expectations, executing in a predictable and steady manner, and adhering to the business rationale for any solution. Since joining IMES in 2015, Maratea and the IMES team have successfully migrated over 1.5PB of physical assets to files, resulting in otherwise sedimentary content being preserved and monetized in a new life.

Michael Marlatt

Michael Marlatt is a graduate of Ryerson University’s Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management MA program and is currently in the 3rd year of his PhD in York University’s Communication & Culture program. Michael has previously done film cataloguing and inspection projects for the Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and York University. Michael’s research interests centre on the history,  influence, and identity of the audio-visual media archivist. Michael has presented at conferences on the inclusion of humanities and social sciences students in archival education and audio-visual media preservation. Michael currently works as a student researcher and archivist for multi-Ontario university project Archive/Counter-Archive.

Mike Mashon

Mike Mashon is Head of the Library of Congress Moving Image Section. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and graduate of multiple Big State Universities, he came to the Library as Curator in 1998 before assuming his current position in 2005.

Lindsay Mattock

Lindsay Mattock is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science. Her work focuses on the archival practices of non-institutional archival spaces, such as media collectives and community archives. Her ongoing digital project, Mapping the Independent Media Community builds from archival resources and traces the historical social networks emerging between independent film and video makers, distributors, media arts centers, and cultural heritage institutions to understand how the historical conditions of the independent and avant-garde have influenced contemporary archival praxis.

Jenni Matz

Jenni Matz is the Director of The Television Academy Foundation Interviews, where she has worked as an archivist and producer for 13+ years. She received her MLIS from Simmons College, and her JD from Southwestern Law University. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and member of AMIA for 15 years. This year, she is serving as co-chair of the AMIA Copyright Committee.

Thomas May

Thomas May is an Audiovisual Technician at the Walter J. Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia. He received his A.B. in Entertainment and Media Studies from Grady College at UGA and is currently enrolled in the MLIS program at Valdosta State University.

Jaime Mears

Jaime Mears is a Senior Innovation Specialist at LC Labs within the Digital Strategy Directorate at the Library of Congress. She is the lead of the Innovator in Residence Program, an annual position that sponsors the creative use of Library digital collections through emerging practices in technology. She is also a co-PI on the Mellon-funded Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud project, which explores ways the Library can support researchers working with data at scale. In her work, she supports experiments that test ways the public can engage with cultural heritage material through diverse modalities, and convenes national and international events to encourage knowledge sharing in the cultural heritage community such as Collections as Data 2016, Code4Lib 2018 and the 2020 Informal Audio Visual Summit (IVAV). Jaime is a co-organizer of the meetup group Digital Cultural Heritage DC (DCHDC) and a board member of the IMLS-funded Memory Lab Network, which creates public transfer stations and digital preservation programming at public libraries to support personal digital archiving.

Mary Miller

Mary Miller is the Peabody Awards Archivist and Metadata Librarian in the University of Georgia’s Walter J. Brown Media Archives.

Candace Ming

Candace Ming is the Media Conservation and Digitization Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.  She is a graduate of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. She is the former Project Manager/Archivist of the South Side Home Movie Project where she was responsible for digitizing and preserving all home movies donated to the SSHMP and also conducted community outreach.

Yasmin Meichtry

Yasmin Meichtry is Associate Director at the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage. She is heading the heritage unit and responsible for all Olympic collections – artefacts/historical archives/photo/film/audio-visual from acquisition to conservation and valorisation and the Executive and Development & Innovation Services (promotion, marketing, communication, digital). Previously, Yasmin has been directing the Fondation Suisse, a Swiss cultural institution in Paris and served in the Swiss diplomatic services as Counsellor for higher education, research and innovation. She is also an experienced film publicist and production advisor.

Morgan Morel

Morgan is Manager of BAVC’s Preservation Department, where he works to provide equitable access to preservation transfers of work by artists, activists, film makers and community members. In his free time he creates video art using analog and digital workflows, and is excited to expand this palette with FFmpeg-based processes.

Rachel Somers Miles

Rachel Somers Miles is a project manager with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Here, she runs the newly-established Audiovisual Research Alliance (AVRA), an evolution of the AV Think Tank, which seeks to openly engage with and produce research in collaboration with the wider audiovisual archiving and heritage community. She also initiated and coordinates the Inward Outward symposium, a collaborative project with Sound and Vision, the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), and the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) that brings together archival practitioners, artists, academics, and researchers to explore the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race. Additionally, Rachel works as a project manager and researcher with LIMA, the Netherlands platform for the distribution, preservation and research of media art, new technologies, and digital culture, where she focuses on the documentation and distribution of born-digital artworks. Rachel has an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University in Montreal and is also a graduate of the of the University of Amsterdam’s Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Image MA.

Jan Müller

Jan Müller is the CEO of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and also a member of the Advisory Board at Macquarie University Sydney, member of the Australian Broadband Advisory Council to the Australian Government and Chair of the recently established Australian Media Literacy Alliance. From 2009-2017 he was the CEO of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Prior to turning to the cultural sector, he spent more than 20 years in the advertising industry, including the position of CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi in Amsterdam (2003-2009) and as a member of the London-based European board of the agency. During his Sound and Vision period, he was also Chair of the Europeana Foundation and President of the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA 2012-2016), CEO ad-interim of the Dutch Press Museum, Chair of the Dutch Media Literacy Program, President of the EU program PrestoCentre and Chair of the Dutch National Coalition for Digital Preservation.

Grace Muñoz

Grace Muñoz is a second year MLIS student at UCLA specializing in Media Archival Studies.  She is currently the Archival Description Audit Scholar at the Center for Primary Research and  Training (CFPRT), a program within UCLA Library Special Collections. In addition to her work at the CFPRT, she is also an intern for Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and UCLA Community Archives Lab. Grace has previously worked at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and has served as a volunteer at the USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.

Darrell Myers

Darrell Myers is the Post Production and Quality Control Specialist for MDPI (Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative) at Indiana University, a position he has held since the beginning of the film phase in the fall of 2017. In addition to his management of the film QC process and team, he also performs editing and restoration work on select digitized titles. Prior to IU, he was at Amazon where he served as QC Specialist, Photographer, and a member of the Video Team, producing, editing and retouching product videos for Amazon.com and affiliates worldwide. Other experiences include: Interactive Media Instructor, live event production, broadcast television, independent and feature film. He is a 1998 Graduate of Indiana University.

David Neary

David Neary is the Project Manager of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Media Preservation Initiative, a three-year grant-funded project to research, catalogue, and assess the condition of all time-based media in the Museum’s collection. Based in Brooklyn, New York, he has worked on film preservation projects at institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the Oregon Historical Society. He is a graduate of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, and also holds an MA in Film Studies from University College Dublin. His areas of specialised research include nitrate preservation and the archiving of film works with complex projection histories. In addition to his work in media preservation, he is also a documentary film programmer and a seasoned film critic.

Steve Norman

Steve Norman is a Research Ecologist with the Southern Research Station of the US Forest Service in Asheville, North Carolina. He uses diverse archival, ecological and remote sensing data to contextualize wildfire in the Southern Appalachians. He has special interest in the region’s wildfires of 2016 and what they may mean for the future of our forests and mountain communities.

Hope O’Keeffe

Hope O’Keeffe has been Senior Associate General Counsel of the Library of Congress since November 2006, supervising all collections matters including acquisitions, copyright, intellectual property, social media, web archiving, and increasing digital access to Library collections.  She serves as counsel to the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. Prior to joining the Library she worked at the National Endowment for the Arts in the Office of General Counsel and in the Office of National Initiatives.  Before NEA she worked as a litigator at Arnold & Porter and a union lawyer at Bredhoff & Kaiser and clerked for the DC Circuit.  She attended Amherst College and the George Washington University Law School.

Eszter M Polonyi

Eszter M Polonyi is an Assistant Professor at the Cultural History department of the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia who teaches and researches film, media and visual culture within the discursive and disciplinary context of art history. Before joining the faculty at Nova Gorica, she was a Lecturer at Columbia University and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she developed several courses on the history and art of analog film practice. Her interest in sub-gauge formats stems from her involvement in the process of housing, sorting, cataloging, researching and teaching a relatively large collection of 16mm films at Pratt.

Rick Prelinger

Rick Prelinger, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, is an archivist, writer, filmmaker and educator. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world, and his feature project No More Road Trips? received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His 27 Lost Landscapes live urban history projects have played to tens of thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles and elsewhere. He co-founded an experimental research library in San Francisco in 2004, which serves over a thousand artists, researchers and activists each year.

Trent Purdy

Trent Purdy is the Multimedia and Digital Collections archivist at the University of Arizona Special Collections Library. He specializes in the preservation of and access to unique audiovisual content held on legacy formats. He is also the curator of the USS Arizona collection and Special Collections. In 2016, he curated an exhibit highlighting the unique holdings from this collection. He earned his MLIS from the University of Arizona and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists.

James Pustejovsky

James Pustejovsky holds the TJX Felberg Chair in Computer Science at Brandeis University, where he directs the Lab for Linguistics and Computation, and chairs both the Program in Linguistics and the Computational Linguistics MS Program. He conducts research in computational linguistics, AI, lexical semantics, multimodal dialogue systems, and the creation of multimodal resources for audio-visual analysis and interpretation.

Dave Rodriguez

Dave Rodriguez is an audiovisual media archivist and filmmaker born and raised in Miami, Florida. He currently serves as the Resident Media Librarian in the Office of Digital Research and Scholarship at Florida State University. He holds an MA in Film & Media Studies (University of Florida, 2009), an MS in Information Science (Florida State University, 2018), and is a graduate of The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation (2012). He has worked as an archival film projectionist, a film laboratory technician, and, most recently, in academic libraries at the intersection of digital humanities and media studies. His film and video work has screened in festivals and galleries across North America and Europe including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], and Le 102.

Dave Rice

Dave is an audiovisual archivist and technologist focusing on using open-source technology in audiovisual preservation applications. Dave is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and has worked as an archivist or archival consultant at media organizations like CUNY, Democracy Now, the United Nations, WITNESS, Downtown Community Television, and Bay Area Video Coalition.

Kyeongmin Rim

Kyeongmin Rim   Kyeongmin Rim is a PhD student working on computational semantics.  After working at an industry-leading NLP company in Korea, he returned to academia and finished his MA in Computational Linguistics at Brandei, exploring semantic frame structures and crowdsourcing annotation methodology in his thesis. As a doctoral research assistant, he’s been working on various projects, building multi-modal and multi-media semantic models for artificial intelligence systems. He is lead developer of the MAE annotation toolkit and the CLAMS platform.

Gabriela Rivera-Marin

Gabriela D. Rivera Marín is a first-year doctoral student of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Florida. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.A. in Linguistics & Communication from the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPRRP). Her current research interests include bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. Apart from linguistics, she has curated digital collections and exhibits for the Caribbean Diaspora Project and the American Archives of Public Broadcasting.

Perla Olivia Rodríguez

Investigadora de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Coordina la Red Iberoamericana de Preservación Digital de Archivos Sonoros y Audiovisuales (RIPDASA). Vicepresidenta de la Asociación Internacional de Archivos Sonoros y Audiovisuales (IASA). Fue distinguida con el Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2019 que otorga la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Fue Subdirectora de Producción en Radio Educación y coordinó el Laboratorio de Experimentación Artística Sonora (LEAS).   Coordinó al equipo que fundó la Fonoteca Nacional de México y en esta institución fue directora de Promoción y Difusión del Sonido de 2008 a 2013. Es autora de 2 libros de autoría individual. Ha sido coordinadora de 23 libros y ha escrito más de 20 artículos de investigación y divulgación científica sobre el tema.

Laura Romans

Laura Romans is the Manuscripts Archivist with the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Tennessee Libraries where she builds, maintains, and promotes the use of their manuscripts collections. She holds her MLIS from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining UT Libraries in 2015, she worked on the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program.

Peter Schallauer

Peter Schallauer is R&D and product coordinator for audiovisual preservation solutions at JOANNEUM RESEARCH’s Smart Media Solutions research group in Graz, Austria. Peter has been working with JOANNEUM since 1995 as scientific and development coordinator creating numerous digital video/movie technologies and systems. Technologies for high quality digital film restoration (DIAMANT-Film), automatic movie and video content analysis, content description, efficient digitisation and documentation of AV archives and traffic video analysis. During recent years he is focussing his activities on signal based video and movie quality assessment solutions for improving the quality and efficiency of archive digitisation and production processes (VidiCert). He is actively involved in relevant standardisation activities (EBU QC, EBU/AMWA, FIMS QA). He coordinated the European Commission FP7 project DAVID– Digital AV Media Damage Prevention and Repair.

Joe Skinner

Joe Skinner, American Masters’ Series Media Archivist at WNET, is the producer and project manager for The American Masters Digital Archive. He is responsible for assessing the state of the archives’ collection and for managing the cataloging, digitizing, and dissemination of the material, as well as for building relationships with partners to the project. Joe is also the multimedia producer for the award-winning PBS broadcast series American Masters. He produces the American Masters Podcast, which recently received a Webby Award for Best Arts & Culture Mini-Series. He received a BFA in Film & TV Production at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts.

Sally Smith

Sally Smith is a current MSLS student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of a forthcoming exhibit for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting on the representation of Native Americans in public broadcasting. She previously worked as a student assistant in the Peabody Awards Archive at the University of Georgia and was a 2019 Library of Congress Junior Fellow in the Recorded Sound section of the MBRS Division. She currently works as an intern for the EPA-RTP library in Durham, NC.

Maya Montañez Smukler

Maya Montañez Smukler heads the UCLA Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center. Since 2015, she has conducted interviews for the Visual History Program at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. Her recent book, Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema, available from Rutgers University Press, was the 2018 recipient of the Theatre Library Association’s Richard Wall Memorial Award. Maya’s first, real, job was as assistant to director Allison Anders on the film Grace of My Heart.

Ben Steck

Ben Steck is a Digital Imaging Specialist at the Library of Virginia where he is tasked with digitizing a range of static material. He has spent the past 20 years at the LVA in a few different departments getting an understanding of how important these institutions are to the community. He completed undergrad at Virginia Commonwealth University in Broadcast Journalism and wrapped up an MLIS with the University of Alabama in the Fall of 2019. During his last semester at UA he participated in the AAPB PBPF fellowship which opened a whole new world to A/V digitization and archives. Ben is currently working on creating a position that will bring a succinct workflow to maintain and promote digital content while enhancing accessibility to images for internal and external use.

Victoria Steger

Victoria Steger earned her BS in Applied Mathematics with a focus in Computer Science and BA in Japanese from the University of Pittsburgh.  After graduation, she worked at a financial compliance and data management software company, and is now in her second year of the computational linguistics program at Brandeis University.

Jacqueline Stewart

Jacqueline Stewart is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of Arts + Public Life at University of Chicago. She directs the South Side Home Movie Project and the Cinema 53 screening and discussion series. Beginning in January 2021, Stewart will join the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures as Chief Artistic and Programming Officer. Jacqueline is the host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies.    A native of Chicago’s South Side, Stewart’s research and teaching explore African American cinema from the silent era to the present, as well as the archiving and preservation of moving images, and “orphan” media histories, including nontheatrical, amateur, and activist film and video. She is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, and co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. In 2018 Stewart was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Deborah Stoiber

Deborah Stoiber has worked for the George Eastman Museum for 22 years and is currently the Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department. She oversees 100,000 nitrate and safety motion picture reels, a large variety of video formats, along with 2,000 Technicolor dye bottles in three facilities located in and around the city of Rochester, NY.  Her responsibilities include inspecting, accessioning and cataloging collection material, making recommendations for de-accessioning collections and new acquisitions.  Recent donations to the museum include an acquisition of South Asian Cinema that has created the largest collection of Indian Cinema outside of India. She is an instructor in The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation where she focuses on the organization and care for permanent and extended loan collections.

Juana Suárez

Juana Suárez is the Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University (NYU MIAP).  She is a media preservation specialist and a scholar in Latin American Cinema. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from Arizona State University, and M.A. degrees from the University of Oregon and New York University. Author of Cinembargo Colombia: Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema (2009), published in English (Palgrave, 2012), and Sites of Contention: Cultural Production and the Discourse of Violence in Colombia (published in Spanish 2010); co-editor of Humor in Latin American Cinema (2015). She is the translator to Spanish of A Comparative History of Latin American Cinema by Paul A. Schroeder-Rodríguez (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2020). She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Moving Images Archives, Cultural History and The Digital Turn in Latin America. She is the coordinator of arturita.net, a collaborative digital humanities project on Latin American AV archives.

Linda Tadic

Linda Tadic is Founder/CEO of Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service that helps libraries, archives, museums, producers, studios, artists, and individuals preserve their digital content. She is also an adjunct professor in UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies program teaching two courses: Digital Asset Management, and Media Description and Access. She was previously an adjunct professor in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Her over 35 years’ experience includes positions at ARTstor, HBO, the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, Pacific Film Archive, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Linda consults and lectures on digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, copyright, metadata, and the impact of digital preservation on the environment. She is a founding member and former President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and is currently on The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Coordinating Committee.

Rai Terry

Rai Terry is a first-year MA student in Public Humanities at Brown University, where they are also a fellow in the Study of the Public History of Slavery. They hold a BA from Brandeis University in African and African American studies concentrating in Arts. Rai has a decade of experience in film, photography, and media. As an AMIA Fellow Rai has entered the field of A/V archiving and has an internship at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Through their internship, Rai is working on a series of projection and exhibition projects specific to enacting racial justice in the Providence area.

Laura Jean Treat

Laura Jean Treat is the Curator of Moving Image Collections and Film & Media Studies Librarian at UC Santa Barbara. She holds an MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information. She is the Co-Chair of the News, Documentary, and Television Committee and the Local TV Task Force. Her current research focuses on increasing the use of local television collections in educational settings and enhancing discoverability of broadcast archives through her ongoing television archive documentation project.

Jesús Salvador Treviño

Jesús Salvador Treviño is a writer/director whose television directing credits include LAW & ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT, PRISON BREAK, ER, BONES, CROSSING JORDAN, NYPD BLUE, STAR TREK VOYAGER, BABYLON FIVE and many others. His national PBS documentaries include YO SOY CHICANO, AMÉRICA TROPICAL, CHICANO MORATORIUM and THE SALAZAR INQUEST. He was Co-Executive Producer of the PBS documentary series, CHICANO! HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT and Co-Executive Producer of the RESURRECION BLVD. drama series on SHOWTIME. He is creator of www.Latinopia.com, a video-driven website on Latino history, art, music, theater, literature, cinema and food.

Ben Turkus

Benjamin H. Turkus is the Assistant Manager of Audio and Moving Image Preservation at NYPL. He’s an adjunct professor at New York University, where he holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Previously, he was the Preservation Project Manager at the Bay Area Video Coalition.

Heather Walker

Heather Walker is a graduate student in the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto, with a concentration in Archives and Records Management. She has a BA in Music Technology from the National University of Ireland. Heather is also the volunteer Student Liaison for the AMIA Education Committee this year. After working as a production coordinator in the television and film industry, she is especially interested in the long-term digital preservation of contemporary audiovisual assets.

Hilary Wang

Hilary Wang is an artist and Pratt Institue School of Information MSLIS candidate. She is the Guggenheim Museum Born-Digital Archives Fellow and a former Graduate Fellow at Barnard College Archives and Special Collections. Hilary is an active member of the Art Library Students & New Professionals (ArLiSNAP) and serves as the Communications Officer for the Society of American Archivists student chapter at Pratt Institute. Her background as a practicing artist and cultural heritage worker shape her interests in digital preservation and archival access. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Andrew Weaver

Andrew Weaver is the Media Preservation Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries, where he is responsible for coordinating and managing the preservation of UW’s extensive A/V holdings. His particular areas of interest are using technology to increase access to collections, integrating AV resources into instruction, Open Source software/workflows/formats and preserving the rich audiovisual heritage of the Pacific Northwest!

Maria Whitaker

Maria joined the Indiana University Libraries in 2015 as the Head of the Digital Media Software Development team within Library Technologies. In this capacity, she is the Product Owner for AMP and the Scrum Master for Avalon, managing the IU developers assigned to both these projects. Before that, her career in software development encompassed systems for research and business administration, including collaboration with other universities in the open source space. She holds a Master’s of Science degree in Computer Science from Indiana University and has been with IU since 2005.

Greg Wilsbacher

Greg Wilsbacher is a faculty librarian at the University of South Carolina where he curates the Fox Movietone News Collection and the United States Marine Corps Film Repository. He writes and lectures on newsreel history, digital preservation theory, optical sound technologies and military cinematography. He is currently collaborating with the University of South Carolina’s Computer Vision Lab and Research Computing Group to develop machine and deep learning models that will expand searchability and access to archival films and explore the potential for these technologies to secure the digital provenance of historical media.

Ken Wise

Ken Wise is professor in the John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee where he was formerly director of the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project.  He is a life-long explorer of the Smoky Mountain wilderness and author of several articles and books on the history of the Smokies, including A Natural History of Mount Le Conte and Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains.  in 2016 he was recognized by the Great Smoky Mountains Association as one of The One Hundred Most Influential People in the History of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Mirerza González Vélez

Mirerza González-Vélez holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication and Journalism from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in Communication and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Puerto Rico. Her research focuses on community archives and community memory.

Miranda Villesvik

Miranda Villesvik grew up in the Seattle area, and now lives in Boston, MA, where she works as a Senior Archivist at GBH (formerly known as WGBH). She enjoys working on large-scale digitization and metadata projects and is always interested in learning more about how to make materials accessible to online users.

Pamela Vizner

Pamela is a media archivist from Chile with international experience in film, video, audio, and digital preservation, specializing in collection management and digitization workflows. Currently, Pamela works as a Consultant for AVP where she supports organizations in projects involving technology selection and implementation, and software development. Pamela began her career in sound archives as an audio engineer and later developed an interest in moving image collections to round out her skills.    She holds a BA in Music and Sound Sciences from Universidad de Chile and an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from NYU, where she is an Adjunct Professor. Pamela has participated in NYU’s Audiovisual Preservation Program (APEX) since 2013 and RIPDASA since 2019 and is a passionate member of the international archiving community and is always looking for ways to integrate diverse dialogue for mutual collaboration.