Maintenance Culture Team
Frances Harrell
Myriad Executive Director
Frances (she/her) is the Executive Director for Myriad, and is responsible for project coordination with all our clients. She is an independent archives professional with over ten years of experience working with cultural heritage organizations. She has spent the larger part of her career helping libraries, archives, and museums achieve their preservation goals through consulting and training in paper, photograph, audiovisual, and digital collections.
She has served the preservation field in many professional leadership roles, including as Co-Chair of ALA's Preservation Outreach Committee, Co-Chair of ALA's Digital Preservation Interest Group, Chair of SAA's Preservation Section, as well as serving on the Program Committees for the PASIG conference and the New England Archivists conference. Frances received her MLIS with a focus in Archives Management at Simmons College and her BA in English Literature from the University of Florida.
Areas of consultation: Project development, grant writing, preservation and collections assessment, digital preservation, renovation or new construction, environmental monitoring, emergency preparedness, personal or family collections.
Elena Cordova
Maintenance Culture Project Director 2023
Elena (she/her) is the Project Director for Maintenance Culture: Sustaining Digital Creative Works, Myriad's project funded by an NEH Preservation Education and Training grant. Elena has an extensive background in institutional libraries and archives, with particular specializations in museum-based collections, fine arts materials, historical manuscripts, and material culture. She has worked previously at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She also worked as a Preservation Specialist at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, and as a freelance archival consultant providing services to a wide range of state, regional and local institutions based throughout New England, as well as private clients. She holds a Master’s Degree in Design History and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, as well as a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the Pratt Institute.
Annie Peterson
Maintenance Culture Project Director 2022
Annie (she/her) is the Project Director for Maintenance Culture: Sustaining Digital Creative Works, Myriad's project funded by an NEH Preservation Education and Training grant. Annie has experience in consulting, training, and working in preservation in libraries and archives. Prior to joining Myriad she worked in several roles at LYRASIS, a non-profit membership organization, providing leadership for the LYRASIS Learning training program, consulting on preservation, and teaching preservation and digitization-related online classes. From 2012 - 2015 she was the Preservation Librarian at Tulane University, rebuilding a preservation program for the library's general and special collections.
Annie received her MLIS from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, along with a Midwest Book and Manuscript Studies Certificate in Special Collections. Her Bachelor of Arts degree in Women's Studies is from the University of Connecticut, where she first started working in libraries, in the conservation department at the Homer Babbidge Library.
Tools and Resources Team
Eddy Colloton
Tools and Resources Team, Detroit Workshop FacilitatorEddy Colloton is Project Conservator of Time-Based Media for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where he works closely with the conservation department on the museum’s diverse array of media artworks. Colloton received his MA degree from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University in May 2016. Colloton has previously worked as Assistant Conservator at the Denver Art Museum and Time-Based Media Technician at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Joey Heinen
Tools and Resources Team, Los Angeles Regional Coordinator, and Workshop Facilitator
Joey Heinen is a digital preservation and time based media specialist, currently serving as Digital Preservation Manager in the Collection Information and Digital Assets Department and head of the Time Based Media Committee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He graduated from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program at NYU in 2014. During his tenure he worked in NYU's film preservation lab, digitized audio for Anthology Film Archives, and served as a media collection and digitization assistant for new media artists Steina & Woody Vasulka. Following this he was selected for the National Digital Stewardship Residency at Harvard Library. He currently serves on the American Institute for Conservation's Electronic Media Group board as Secretary/Treasurer and the planning committee for the TechFocus conference.
Areas of consultation: Audiovisual preservation, digital preservation, organizational management, digital and audiovisual collection assessment.
Julia Kim
Tools and Resources Team
Julia (she/her) is a Digital Projects Coordinator and software Product Manager developing applications used worldwide. She is responsible for product strategy and vision, and ensures that the end-users are represented through the development process. She is also versed in software beta, alpha, regression testing, rapid-prototyping, and software distribution platforms. She is also an experienced Digital Assets Manager and Digital Assets Specialist who developed workflows for born-digital and digitized multi-format collections for preservation and access (2015 - 2020) at a major ethnographic archive. From 2014-2015, she was a National Digital Stewardship Resident during which time she developed born-digital workflows from accession to access, and developed case studies on born-digital emulations and patron reception of them. In 2013, she co-founded XFR Collective (2014), a nonprofit that provides affordable and accessible audiovisual migration services and support.
She has published widely with Code4lib, JCAS, IASA, and blogs like the Library of Congress’s “The Signal” on digital workflows, audiovisual case studies, emulation, the digital stewardship field and patron/user-studies. She has a B.A from Columbia University in Religion and an M.A. from New York University in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. She is PMI-Certified. For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaykim1/
Areas of consultation: digital preservation, digital systems and workflows, audiovisual preservation and access, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Product Management, Project Management, software development, (patron) user studies, UX interaction Design and wireframing
Lorena Ramírez-López
Tools and Resources Team
Lorena Ramírez-López has been a moving image specialist for 5 years. In that time she has focused on the preservation, conservation, and restoration of audiovisual collections. She has a concentration in the installation and storage of digital time-based media art. She is currently learning full-stack web development at The Flatiron School to better preserve and conserve the Internet.
Areas of consultation: Digital preservation systems and implementation, time-based media preservation
Workshops Team
Jessica Bitely
Workshops Team
Jessica believes deeply that preservation is collaborative, iterative, and works in service to access. She is the current Preservation Manager for the Boston Public Library and former Director of Preservation Services for the Northeast Document Conservation Center. Her experience has been focused on preservation in a special collections and research environment, and covers aspects from planning a large collections moves and space renovation to working with collections and facilities staff to make the best of existing resources for collections care and access. She has spoken extensively on preservation topics to a wide range of audiences, has written and managed large grants, and has performed general preservation assessments for dozens of cultural heritage institutions across the US.
Jessica received her MLIS with a concentration in Archival Management from Simmons College in 2009.
Areas of consultation: preservation assessments and trainings related to paper-based, photographic, and audiovisual materials; moving and renovating; project planning; procedure development; preparing collections care job descriptions, hiring, and on-boarding; and grant writing.
Stacey Erdman
Workshops Team
Stacey Jones Erdman is the Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Arizona. In this position, she has responsibility for designing and leading the digital preservation program for UA Libraries. She works with various library constituents to plan, develop, implement, and communicate digital preservation policies, strategies, workflows, processes, and practices to ensure the long-term viability of digital assets under the library’s stewardship. She is the former Digital Preservation & Curation Officer at Arizona State University, Digital Archivist at Beloit College, and Digital Collections Curator at Northern Illinois University. Stacey currently participates on several NDSA groups, including the Coordinating Committee, the Membership Working Group, the 2021 Program Committee, and the Standards Workgroup. She is Vice Chair for the 2022 DigiPres conference. She served as a mentor for the Curating Community Digital Collections Project; as the digital preservation advisor for the Accelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries Community Memory Cohort; as a member of the NDSA Levels of Preservation Assessment Group; as Webmaster for MAC; and has served on the Program Committees for MAC (2019), the BitCurator User’s Forum (2020) and PASIG (2019-present). She served in various roles on Digital POWRR projects, including: Technical Coordinator (Phase 1, 2), Instructor (Phase 2), Communications & Communities Coordinator, and Consulting Instructor (Phase 3).
Margo Padilla
Workshops Team
Margo Padilla (she/her) is the Digital Archivist at the New-York Historical Society where she leads the development and implementation of digital collections policies, strategies, and workflows. Margo received her MLIS with a concentration in Management, Digitization, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Records from San José State University and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Danielle Spalenka
Workshops Team
Danielle is the Digital Initiatives & Preservation Archivist at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, KY. She provides vision and leadership to the Filson’s overall digital collections and preservation strategy and oversees grant-funded digitization projects. She has extensive experience in providing digital & preservation training, particularly to smaller institutions. Prior to joining the Filson staff in April 2019, Ms. Spalenka held the role of Preservation Specialist at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, served as the Project Director for the Digital POWRR Project, and Curator of Manuscripts at the Northern Illinois University Regional History Center. She has served on the board of the Kentucky Council on Archives and served on the Program Committee for DLF/NDSA and MAC. She holds a BA in history from Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN) and a MA-LIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Workshop Facilitators
Stefan Elnabli
Los Angeles Workshop Facilitator
Stefan is an information management professional and educator whose engagement with preservation and digital repository services in the cultural heritage space spans the areas of digital preservation, repository service management, applications development, digital asset management, and digital scholarship. His past appointments include positions with AVP Information Management Solutions, the Samvera application development team for Avalon Media System, WNET Channel 13 Digital Archive, and preservation units within major university libraries including Stanford University, New York University, Northwestern University, and University of California San Diego.
Stefan holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University and certificates of completion from Harvard University's Library Leadership in a Digital Age, ScrumAlliance's Scrum Master Certification Program, the Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorization Body's High Level Training Course on ISO16363 for Auditors and Managers of Digital Repositories, MIT's Digital Preservation Management Workshop, FIAF's Analogic and Digital Film Restoration Program, and Rath and Strong Management Consultants' Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Program.
Areas of consultation: Tools and Technologies for Digital Asset Management and Access, Digital Preservation, Audiovisual Preservation, Digital Reformatting, Grant Writing and Management, Staff and Workflow Management
Caroline Gil Rodríguez
Baltimore Workshop Facilitator
Caroline Gil Rodríguez is a time-based media conservator, archivist, and writer from Puerto Rico. Caroline has experience working in time-based media conservation within a variety of contexts, including: museums, libraries, archives; artists and artists estates; media art collectors and non-profits. Her areas of interest encompass the conservation of electronic art, software-based artworks, digital preservation systems and workflows, and collectivism. Caroline has worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York Public Library (NYPL), and the Smithsonian Institute. She currently is the Director of Media Collections and Preservation at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), a New York-based non-profit organization and leader in the field of media art.
Sarah Nguyễn
Seattle Workshop Facilitator
Sarah Nguyễn (she/they) has researched ideas and phenomena influenced by both digital and physical spaces. Initially, Sarah dreamed of becoming a librarian and archivist who had the keys to all of the information in the world. Presently, they are finding more questions than answers as they engage in historical and cultural community-driven research about socio-technical information infrastructures. In other words, Sarah talks to people and reads historical, social, and technical literature to better understand how and why people find, share, remember, and trust information during crises. Sarah seeks to practice and produce research that deeply serves communities of immigrant backgrounds and forced displacement experiences.
Previously, Sarah contributed to the Alfred P. Sloan grant-funded project, titled Privacy Encryption of Sensitive Data; New York University Bobst Library’s Investigating and Archiving the Scholarly Git Experience ; CUNY City Tech's open education resources fellowship; the Andrew Mellon Foundation grant-funded project, titled Preserve This Podcast, and the Mellon grant-fund for the Mark Morris Dance Group legacy project. Sarah was a 2021-2022 Dance/USA Fellow in Dance Archiving and Preservation for AXIS Dance Company and was a research-artist resident for Works and Process at the Guggenheim in Spring 2022. Her research has been featured in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, VICE, BuzzFeed, KUOW Public Radio, Saigon Broadcasting Television Network, DC Public Library on Full Service Radio, Museum Archipelago podcast, UNC CITAP Does Not Compute podcast, and InDance magazine. She holds a master’s in Libraries and Information Science and is currently a PhD student at the University of Washington collaborating with the AfterLab and the Center for an Informed Public.
Meaghan Perry
Houston Workshop Facilitator
Meaghan Perry (she/her/hers) is the owner and principal conservator of Momentum Art Conservation in Austin, Texas. Meaghan holds a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Texas and an M.A., C.A.S. from the State University of New York College at Buffalo. She completed her year of advanced study in time-based media conservation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, focused on the conservation of video, audio, and performance-based artworks.
Meaghan was previously the Assistant Objects Conservator at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, where she worked extensively with the Artists Documentation Program. She has contributed to projects at SFMOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Archaeological Institute Стоби in Macedonia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Bob Bullock Museum, and the Harry Ransom Center. Meaghan has served on the American Institute for Conservation Education and Training Committee, Emerging Conservation Professionals Network, and the Electronic Media Group Publication Committee. She is presently a co-editor of American Institute for Conservation’s Electronic Media Group Review, and serves as the consulting objects and variable media conservator for the special collections at the University of Texas.
Emily Shaw
Detroit Workshop Facilitator
Emily (she/her) is a librarian and archivist from Chicago, IL, and has a B.A. in Anthropology from Barnard College of Columbia University and an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an extended concentration in Digital Libraries. Emily began her career at the University of Illinois, conducting interdisciplinary communication policy research, conserving scrapbooks, and digitizing books in partnership with Google. She then served as the first Digital Preservation Librarian for the University of Iowa Libraries, and as Head of Preservation and Reformatting for the Ohio State University Libraries and a member of the OSU faculty. Most recently, Emily was recruited to lead the Obama Foundation’s digitization efforts, which included helping the organization to scope its role in preserving and providing access to the Obamas’ digital legacy and chart a course toward sound digital stewardship infrastructure and practices.
In her roles as practitioner and administrator, Emily has led and worked with diverse teams undertaking the complex work of managing, preserving, and leveraging collections of distinctive physical and digital content. Emily has successfully managed staff, budgets, facilities, and projects in both public and private non-profit settings. She has extensive experience with RFPs and grant writing, procurement of materials and services, workflow and policy development, strategic planning and communications, contracting, and donor relations. With equal strength in strategy and operations, Emily works to consciously embed the values of equity, diversity, inclusion, accountability, and trust into all aspects of her work.
Areas of consultation: Digitization. Preservation of library, archives, and museum collections. Conservation and collections care. Digital Asset Management. Digital preservation and stewardship. RFP development and procurement.
Megan McShea (she/her) is an independent archivist based in Baltimore, MD. Current projects focus on archival processing, metadata, photo and video digitization, digital asset management, digital preservation, and workflow development. Clients include Afro Charities (stewards of the AFRO American Newspaper Archives), the Human Studies Film Archives (Smithsonian Institution), and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA). She has taught workshops on archival processing, archival description, and working with audiovisual materials through the Society of American Archivists, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and the Community Archives Program at the University of Baltimore.
Prior to working independently, she was the first Audiovisual Archivist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, where she developed practices in a manuscript repository setting around audiovisual collection management, processing, digitization, and preservation, and co-founded AVAIL, the Smithsonian's collaborative, pan-institutional staff group for audiovisual archivists.
She holds an MLS from the University of Maryland, College Park and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.
Megan McShea
Baltimore Workshop Facilitator
Mikaela Selley
Houston Workshop Facilitator
Mikaela Selley is a native Houstonian with nine years of professional experience as an archivist specializing in the preservation of records significant to Hispanic and Latina/o heritage. From 2013 to 2021 she served as the Hispanic Collections Archivist for the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, a special collections branch of the Houston Public Library. In this position she oversaw the processing, digitization, and promotion of the Hispanic Archival Collections, adding over 1,000 items to the public research portal. Additionally, she has curatorial experience for history and cultural heritage exhibits. Selley works as an Independent Consultant offering research, planning, archival and exhibit design services for personal, business, and cultural heritage projects. She is also Program Manager for the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at Arte Público Press where she oversees the Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region, a project to digitize over 200 historic newspapers.
Erica Titkemeyer
New Orleans Workshop Facilitator
Erica (they/them) is the Project Director and AV Conservator within the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). In this position they coordinate a multi-year $1.75 million grant-funded initiative to preserve audiovisual materials for UNC-CH and partner institutions across the state of North Carolina. Erica is also the Product Owner of the open-source audiovisual database management application, Jitterbug.
From 2013-2014 they were a Library of Congress National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, working to produce best practices and recommendations for museums collecting digital media artworks. Erica received their M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and their B.S. in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College.
Areas of consultation: Audiovisual preservation, grant writing, copyright, digital preservation, and technologies/tools
Regional Coordinators
Libby Hopfauf
Seattle Regional Coordinator
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.
Siobhan Hagan
Baltimore Regional Co-Coordinator
Siobhan C. Hagan was born and raised in Baltimore and holds her M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has worked in a variety of collecting organizations throughout her career, including the UCLA Library, the National Aquarium, and the DC Public Library. Siobhan is currently the Coordinator for the Smithsonian Institute's Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative. She is also the founder, President, and CEO of the Baltimore-based nonprofit, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA).
Kristin MacDonough
Detroit Regional Co-Coordinator
Kristin works as the Archive and Collection Manager for Video Data Bank, a video art distributor based in Chicago. Prior to this role, Kristin held the position of Assistant Media Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she collaborated with colleagues to implement guidelines and procedures relating to time-based media artworks. Outside of work, Kristin empowers others to engage with at-risk and under-supported audiovisual collections through mentorship and by leading workshops and courses on caring for AV media. Kristin holds an MA from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University and is a co-founder of XFR [pronounced ‘transfer’] Collective, a New York City-based non-profit dedicated to AV education, preservation, and access. She previously worked at Video Data Bank as a Digitization Specialist, and has also worked for other organizations including The StandBy Program and Bay Area Video Coalition.
Yvette Ramírez
Detroit Regional Co-Coordinator
Originally from Queens, NY, Yvette is archivist and researcher based in Detroit, Michigan. She is inspired by the power of community-centered archives to further explore the complexities of information transmission and memory within Andean and other diasporic Latinx communities of Indigenous descent. With nearly a decade of experience as an arts administrator, Yvette has worked alongside community-based and cultural organizations such as The Laundromat Project, PEN America, Make The Road New York and New Immigrant Community Empowerment. Currently, she is working towards her PhD at the School of Information at The University of Michigan where she also holds an MSI in Digital Curation and Archives. Yvette is also a co-founding member of the collective Archivistas en Espanglish.
Ashley Shabankareh
New Orleans Regional Coordinator
Ashley Shabankareh (she/they) is a musician, music educator, and arts administrator. She received her M.M. and B.M.E. from Loyola University, New Orleans, with a concentration on conducting and brass instruments. Ashley is a K-12 music educator and spent her early years in New Orleans teaching PK4-8th grade students. She transitioned from full-time music instruction to assist in the creation of the curriculum and program guidelines for the Tulane University Music Rising Program. For 14 years, Ashley served as the Director of Programs for Preservation Hall Foundation, working with culture bearers and serving over 35,000 per year in programming in schools, detention centers, and community centers. In 2016, she was named a Top Female Achiever by New Orleans Magazine, a New Orleans Hero by the Times-Picayune, and a Woman of the Year by New Orleans City Business. In 2017, she was named a Top Millennial in Music by the Spears Group and I Heart Media.
Today, Ashley serves as the Director of Operations and Programs for Trombone Shorty Foundation. Ashley is a professor of Music Education and Music Therapy for Loyola University, New Orleans, and a professor of low brass at Xavier University. In addition, Ashley supports arts and music education nonprofits in New Orleans, including Upbeat Academy Foundation, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, and Artist Corps New Orleans. Ashley is the Vice President for the Jazz Education Network (JEN), Board Member for Folk Alliance International, Chapter Governor for the Recording Academy, Memphis Chapter, and Board Secretary for Second Line Arts Collective. Ashley is a trombonist and vocalist and they have performed with notable musicians including Aretha Franklin, Allen Toussaint, Jimmy Buffett, Theresa Andersson, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and in her own projects, Marina Orchestra and the Asylum Chorus.
Joana Stillwell
Baltimore Regional Co-Coordinator
Joana Stillwell is an artist and archivist based between Washington DC, and Baltimore, MD. Joana graduated from the Master of Library and Information Science program at the University of Maryland where she specialized in archives and digital curation, and received a Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Certificate. She additionally holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has worked on projects with the National Gallery of Art, Filipino American Community Archive, and the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Joana is currently the AV Archivist for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA) and she is interested in artist and community archives.
Emily Vinson
Houston Regional Coordinator
Emily Vinson (she/her) is an Audiovisual Archivist at the University of Houston Libraries. Since 2015, Emily has established the Libraries’ AV preservation, digitization, and access program and overseen several grant-funded projects. She is an active member in the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Texas Digital Libraries, and the Digital Library Federation, and is past president of Archivist of the Houston Area. Her work has been published in The American Archivist, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, and the Journal of Digital Media Management.
Previously, Emily was a fellow at the New York Public Library IMLS-funded Preservation Administration program, a project archivist at New York Public Radio preserving WNYC’s rich audio heritage, and archivist at Rice University’s Baker Institute.
Emily received MSIS from the University of Texas School of Information, with a certificate of advanced study in Preservation Administration and a BA in Art History and History from Tulane University in New Orleans.