Queer Heresies

• Director of Archives

  • The Archives Director is responsible for the direction and coordination of the archive team. They oversee archive staff, project-area supervision, lead program production and expense control. They coordinate team meetings, trainings, create and innovate organizational systems and workflows, coordinate with Executive Directors and Finance + Operations Director, and communicate with all staff within the Archive/Digital team. They work with Executive Directors on archive development and set strategic goals.

• Project Assistant

  • Organize all aspects of project administration with project directors (based in New York and Chicago).  Create, organize, and maintain institutional archive

  • Correspond with institutions and participants

  • Manage the organization and flow of team meetings and administration.

  • Facilitate conversations between team members, directors, and host institutions.  

  • Website updates and management.

  • Organize work flows among the audio processing team.

  • Work closely with project directors to facilitate event production.

  • Research participants and manage the production of invitations

  • Research host institutions and surrounding communities to produce dialogues that are contemporary and regionally relevant

  • Assist with Wikipedia event preparation and project maintenance.

• Multicultural Affairs Graduate Coordinator

  • ​Develop an archival system for the Multicultural Affairs Digital Archives following best archival practices

  • Supervise a team of five student workers with the goal of carrying out daily, weekly, and monthly objectives for the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

  • Directly report to Rashayla Brown, Director of Multicultural Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion, on the behalf of SAIC's twenty student-run affinity groups.

  • Schedule rooms for group meetings, critiques surrounding cultural diversity, and other programming at SAIC.

  • Organize the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Committee meeting to promote faculty, staff, and student relations.

  • Manage budget proposals for student groups funding projects.

  • Advise students on best practices for developing programming, written materials, and promotional materials.

  • Promoted to Experienced Graduate Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs (August 2016- May 2017)

• Reference Librarian (December 2020 - November 2021)

  • Provides reference service at the Reference Desk on a regularly scheduled basis.  Provides reference and research services to museum staff on demand.  Responds to written, telephone, and email reference questions as necessary.

  • Assists in providing bibliographic instruction, training and orientations for AIC staff, School of the Art Institute classes, the Libraries' reference staff and other groups as necessary.

  • Promotes the libraries’ collections and services through developing discovery tools and web content. 

  • Assists in collection development of both print and digital resources

• Senior Library Assistant (May 2019 – December 2020)

  • Catalogs auction catalogs.

  • Prepares and receives bindery shipments.

  • Processes materials for the pamphlet files.

  • Assists labeler.

  • Provides administrative support for archives.

  • Receives and catalogs auction catalogs.

  • Communicates with auction houses to claim missing catalogs and to monitor status of subscriptions.

  • Labels books.

  • Monitors labeling workflow and keeps statistics.
     

• Circulation Assistant (Aug 2017 – May 2019)

  • Assist with research inquiries into the library’s special collections, and archives

  • Answer patron reference and research requests in person, via email, and by phone

  • Handle rare and fragile documents

• Library Associate – Exhibits

  • Curate long-term exhibits for public exhibition spaces at the Harold Washington Library

  • Handle rare books and documents, original artworks, and reproductions during preparation and install of exhibition series

  • Collaborate with artists, curators, and librarians to design art exhibits for 79 Chicago public library sites

  • Coordinate and facilitate gallery talks, public programming, and openings for art exhibits at the Harold Washington Library

  • Prepare and design layouts for installations

  • Prepare and complete loan agreements, insurance, and condition reports for works on loan

  • Chair of the Exhibits Subcommittee for Chicago Public Library’s LGBT Pride Cohort

• Special Collections Assistant

  • Curate selections from the collection for projects as determined by requests from researchers, students, faculty, and staff

  • Conduct orientations for visitors regarding collection scope and history

  • Answer patron reference and research requests in person, via email, and by phone

  • Promote the collections to increase visibility and usage (on-campus, via social media outlets, etc.)

  • Catalogue and pre-catalogue new acquisitions, including digital imaging, filing metadata, and enumerating objects with collection reference numbers

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• Archives and Oral History Representative

  • Design exhibitions on projects central to the history of Ripon College and the City of Ripon

  • Digitize images within the archives and create displays in Ripon College's Lane Library vitrines and Ripon College’s West Hall Museum

  • Provide museological or archival information and facts regarding Ripon College, the City of Ripon, Lane Library to visiting patrons

  • Catalogue and pre-catalogue new acquisitions, including digital imaging, filing metadata, and enumerating objects with collection reference numbers.

• A Taste of Trotter

  • Harold Washington Library – Chicago Public Library (October 2018 - ongoing)

• Resilient Souls: The Colors of Education

  • Harold Washington Library – Chicago Public Library (July 2018 - October 2018)

• Pintando: The Colors of Education

  • Harold Washington Library – Chicago Public Library (May 2018 - August 2018)

• The Library is Open: A Queer Lexicon

  • Harold Washington Library – Chicago Public Library (June 2018 - July 2018)

• Powered by Femmes: A Showcase of Women and Femme Artists in Chicago

  • Harold Washington Library – Chicago Public Library (March 2018 – April 2018)

• When Home Won’t Let You Stay

  • Harold Washington Library – Chicago Public Library (March - April 2018)

• Patrick Thompson: The Color of Jazz

  • Harold Washington Library – Chicago Public Library (January 2018 - March 2018)

• Curate exhibition using material from three special collections in the School of the Art Institute’s Flaxman Library.

• Co-design and co-write a zine with a local artist for inclusion in the library and collection

• Develop theme of exhibition surrounding visual and social affinities regarding the persecution of witches and contemporary issues facing Queer communities and Communities of Color.

• Coordinate a cultural event that included music, food, and art by engaging with culture-based student groups on SAIC’s campus.

• Lead performance of thesis-driven performance while directing dancers, choreographer, and costume designers.

• Assist in the planning of an exhibition involving thirty living artists and ten iconic historic Black artists.

• Develop a call for artists and curators for an exhibition with Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center.

• Hire and direct a ten-person curatorial team under the guidance of Lead Curator Rashayla Brown.

• Manage and proofread the production of an exhibition catalogue with publications designer.

• Organize install schedule for curatorial committee and artists.

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • 2019-present: Master of Library and Information Sciences

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL

  • Master of Arts, May 2017, Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism

  • Honors & Awards: SAIC Graduate Student Merit Award, Archibald Motley Fund, Student Leadership Award

  • Master’s Thesis: Queer Heretics: Case Studies in the Convergence of Witchcraft and Queerness in Contemporary Art

• Ripon College, Ripon, WI

  • Bachelor of Arts, May 2015, Art History; Anthropology GPA: 3.73

  • Honors & Awards: David L. and Elizabeth W. Harris Memorial Scholarship, Ripon College Laurel Honor Society, Lambda Alpha Honor Society, Ripon College Dean’s List

• Languages: German: Fluent (writing, reading); Basic (speaking)