I was excited to bring together my background in Southern history with the collections at the Center for Jewish History curating this exhibition in late winter 2023. I coordinated loans with the American Jewish Historical Society, YIVO Library, and the American Sephardi Federation to use books highlighting Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities in South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

My blog about the items on exhibition and related resources can be found here.

A community of self-identified bookish people who read books and watch movies about bookish things.  The Bookish Book Club was started by Christine Jacobson in August 2020 and quickly attracted a friendly community that has grown to over 150 members participating at varying levels of activity. We generally meet once a month on zoom to discuss the book selection, sometimes with authors joining for the discussion. We also chat on our own Discord server about bookish things but also about pets, cocktails, and collecting.

We led a book discussion at RBMS 2022 on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers and  were mentioned in Nylah Burton's article on book clubs started during the pandemic.

I joined as a co-convener for the group in spring 2021 along with Christine Jacobson and Christine Werner.

As the world shifted online in Spring 2020, the Teaching with Primary Sources Collective  began hosting  bi-weekly Community Calls to provide needed support to people teaching with primary sources, typically folks in GLAM. The 60 minute calls featured lightning round presentations, demos, and guided discussion groups. Notes from calls along with other remote instruction guidance can be found in our (large!)  crowd-sourced Doc.

As a member of the planning group, I helped select topics and dates, communicate needs, problem solve, and facilitate break out rooms for virtual calls. We accomplished bi-weekly calls averaging 125 attendees, with necessarily quick turn around for planning. As of fall 2020 calls are monthly.

I spoke to my experience as an early career professional engaging in planning and community building through TPS at the Un-Conference in July with others from the planning group.

My first film essay was published in March 2023, exploring themes of loneliness and legacy in the  award-winning film The Banshees of Inisherin: Do You Never Get Lonely?

I contributed to two volumes of the New York City-based sufjanzineproject, Illumination (2015) [left] and Keep It Moving (2019), including the cover art for the first volume (left). I created a watercolor and accompanying description for Broadside, a Nashville-based feminist publication.

This research guide, created with two of my peers, offers a general introduction to specific instances of family separation in the United States. I created the tab on Native American family separation, contributed to homepage content, and customized and streamlined the guide. I used Camtasia to create an instructional video for searching a cultural heritage database to find relevant resources, particularly beneficial to remote users new to research in archives and special collections.

This guide was selected for presention at Pratt Institute's 2019 InfoShow.

I now supervise all LibGuides created by the Reference team at CJH, and I have created and maintain 12 new research guides. I've updated accessibility requirements for existing guides, including color contrast, link checking, and alt-text requirements across guides.