Archival services, preservation, and historical stewardship
With a background in film history, professional experience in the film industry, and a path that led to a master’s in archival management, I bring together expertise in organization, preservation, and historical stewardship with a creative perspective. I ensure that records of enduring value are thoughtfully maintained, meaningfully documented, and made discoverable for future research, interpretation, public engagement, and posterity.
Services include:
Assess archival and preservation needs
Process archival materials through organizing, cataloging, and rehousing physical and digital content
Create and cultivate archival collections and new archival materials through active documentation
Create finding aids and other descriptive resources to improve discoverability and long-term access
Design digitization workflows that support preservation and access goals
Develop preservation and migration strategies for born-digital materials, including emails, text messages, images, and proprietary file formats
Plan for long-term access through archival storytelling, exhibitions, publications, and other public-facing projects
Conduct archival research
Recent Archival Work
Ira Sachs, filmmaker: Inventoried, cataloged, and composed a finding aid document for Sachs’s papers (1991-2016). Currently managing ongoing project’s archival material. Brokered digital films acquisition into MoMA film archive. Curated an exhibit of photographs in collaboration with The Morgan Library at Lincoln Center around the release of the film Peter Hujar’s Day (2025).
Bette Gordon, filmmaker: Inventoried and cataloged paper material for numerous films, most prominently Variety (1983). Digitized images and print material from the collection. Currently working on a book about the Variety archive.
Digital Archives & Preservation Fellowship, New York Public Library: Carried out a research project on hard drive preservation challenges: managing, checking and migrating digital materials. Assisted in drive transfer from Martha Graham Dance Company to NYPL.
Special Projects
The Collective for Living Cinema: a history of the exhibition space (1973-1991) with research pulled from personal archives and oral histories.
I Love New York: zine series on the history of romance films set in New York City from 1960-2000s, turned into a substack newsletter.
Mountain Rest film archive book: archival book project about the making of the film Mountain Rest (2018) directed by Alex O Eaton.
Gem menus: produced and designed archival based menu for fine dining restaurant
Education
MSLIS with a focus in archival management and digital preservation from Pratt Institute
Projects included:
Management of Archive and Special Collections: processed collections for the Pratt Institute Archives
Digital Preservation and Curation: research project on proprietary digital audio workstations preservation
Projects in Digital Archives: digitized a collection of ¼ inch audio reels
Visual Resources Management: digitized print and 35mm slide images and managed collection metadata in Adobe Bridge
Lesbian Herstory Archives Internship, cataloging
BA in film history - Bard College