Professional Experience

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Leading digital interpretation and digital humanities across all museum platforms
Developing policy and guides for digital interpretative content creation and the digital humanities
Researching effective digital outreach and strategy for diverse Museum visitors, virtually and in person
Writing and designing original publications, articles, essays, and interactive experiences for the Museum’s digital channels and platforms
Leading the planning, production, and implementation of original and adaptive digital exhibitions and online initiatives
Collaborating across the Smithsonian Institute on enterprise-wide digital experiences and initiatives
Representing the museum internationally at conferences, workshops, talks, and courses

Coordinating with Houghton and Harvard Library colleagues to plan, prioritize, and manage projects to digitize archives, manuscripts, rare books, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and other special collections materials
Supervising a staff of 1 FTE involved in facilitating the digitization of material ordered by library users
Creating metadata for digital projects
Soliciting digital project proposals and coordinating processes to set digitization priorities
Working across institutions to promote the Houghton's digital collections
Forging relationships with outside institutions to pursue collaborative digital projects

Managing digitization workflow for almost one million records across 74 collection
Coordinating description decisions and scanning processes across multiple archives in collaboration with archivists and curators with diverse perspectives
Enhancing folder level metadata to reflect richer cultural and historical detail
Supervising six student workers in scanning and quality control
Overseeing copyright, fair use, and other access documentation for all newly digitized records
Blog writing, design, and management of #Umbrasearch

Processing of sheet music collections
Research and writing for the "Archival Spotlight" feature in Black Camera
Leading discussions and tours of the archives for undergraduate and graduate students
Assisting visiting researchers with reference and collections information
Research and writing for film screening proposals
Contacting rightsholders for film screenings
Curating "Still: The Art of Adele Stephenson," an exhibit combining the multi-media film inspired art of Adele Stephenson with the BFC/A's film poster holdings

Cataloging new acquisitions in TMS
Digitizing and transcribing oral history records from cassette tape
Audio editing, transcription, research, and writing for "A New Place to Roost: The Lake Monroe Oral History Project"

Serving as Managing Editor for Marquee Magazine with responsibilities including
- design layout
- contributor correspondence
- staff writing
- image research from archival collections
Organizing the 2015 Theatre Conclave Tour with responsibilities including
- negotiating and confirming tour dates for over 20 historic theaters in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
- negotiating transportation and dining contracts in multiple cities
- designing and writing a commemorative tour guide
- managing the on-the-ground tour experience for 85 attendees

Collaborative design and writing for multiple exhibits
Partial processing for numerous collections including manuscript, sheet music, ephemera, and audio recordings
Design of promotional materials for conferences and exhibits
Donor interview recording and transcription