Board of Directors
Stephanie Neel Stephanie Neel is an archivist based in New York City, working primarily with photography and performing arts collections. She has been the Director of Archives and Operations for the Margaret Morton Archive since 2023, and is a consultant on projects with The Town Hall, Parsons Dance, and Mark Morris Dance Group. She is a member of Dance/USA’s Archives Funding Coalition, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and serves on the Programming Committee for Archivists Round Table. Stephanie has a BA in Art History and Dance from Barnard College and an MLIS from Pratt Institute. |
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Michael Andrec Michael Andrec has been the lone arranger at the Ukrainian History and Education Center (UkrHEC.org) in Somerset, NJ since 2010, where he has been responsible for preserving and making accessible hundreds of legacy and recently acquired collections, as well as exhibition curation, digitization of audio and paper-based archives, outreach, and reference services. Since 2021 he has also been an archives consultant for the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York, NY (shevchenko.org). He completed the Modern Archives Institute at the National Archives and Records Administration and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. He served as Treasurer of the Archivists Round Table from 2015 to 2017. In 2022, Michael and the UHEC received the MARAC New Jersey Caucus Innovative Archives Award for his rapid shift from archival duties to education and advocacy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
Kirk Mudle Kirk Mudle is the Program Manager for the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N), a joint initiative between Pratt Institute and New York University, as well as the Archive Manager for the New York African Film Festival, Inc. He completed his MA in Moving Image Archiving Preservation in 2023 from NYU, MA in Cinema Studies in 2019 from San Francisco State University, and BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida. His current research focuses on digital and software preservation, intellectual property law, and time-based media conservation. |
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Nicole Font Nicole Font [she/her] is a Shelby White and Leon Levy Processing Archivist at the New York Botanical Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library. She earned her MA in Archives and Public History from New York University in 2022 and has since worked on projects for the Bob Dylan Archive, the New-York Historical Society, and the Center for Brooklyn History. |
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Nicole K. Rivas Director of Development Nicole K. Rivas is a fashion & costume historian and independent archivist whose research examines the intersections of clothing, identity, and cultural memory. She holds an MA in Fashion Studies from Parsons School of Design, a BA in Studio Art with a minor in Art History from UC Riverside, and is currently pursuing an MSLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies at St. John’s University. Nicole’s work has been published in The Fashion and Race Database, Radical Fashion Exercises, and the Journal of Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, with a forthcoming book exploring immigrant identity and secondhand objects. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions, including New York’s first retrospective on designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo, and has worked with institutions on archival projects such as Levi Strauss & Co. Archives, Tom Ford, The Row, and more. Her ongoing work is dedicated to preserving and interpreting fashion as a vital form of cultural and artistic expression, with a commitment to accessibility, scholarly rigor, and long-term historical relevance. |
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Herbert Durán
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Elizabeth Kobert Elizabeth Kobert is an archivist at The Frick Collection and Frick Art Research Library, and has previously worked in the archives of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Pratt Institute, and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection. She received her MLIS from Pratt in 2019 and a BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. She has contributed writing to the SAA's Reviews Portal, Library Journal, and the Frick's blog, and has volunteered with Interference Archive and the Prison Library Support Network. |
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Linda Smith Linda Smith (she/they) is a multimedia archivist and librarian. She currently serves as the archivist for the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) and Arab.AMP, and the Stock Footage Consultant of Third World Newsreel. Linda has also interned and worked at a variety of cultural heritage institutions, including the American Folk Art Museum, the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, the Zohrab Information Center, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library & Museum. They appreciate the challenges and opportunities in working with culturally rich archives, especially those with significant arts holdings and audiovisual material. She loves learning through materials and alongside patrons, advocating for open access, discussion, and collaboration as teaching tools and calls to action. Linda has two Master’s degrees, an M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation and a Master’s in Library Science. |
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Anton Sherin Anton Sherin (He/Him/His) is the Associate Archivist for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Library and Archive, where he oversees all departmental activities. He holds an MSLIS from St. John's University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of design. Prior to his nomination to Director of Programming, Anton served 1 year as Secretary for the Board and 1.5 years on the Programming Committee. His interests include designing software solutions for automating archival workflows and building archival communities of practice. |
David Walker David Walker is an archivist at The Easton Foundation & Louise Bourgeois Archive in New York City, where he started 5 years ago as an intern cataloging books in the artist's conserved home. He is currently processing Bourgeois’s extensive audiovisual recordings, including her audio diaries, conversations, and interviews. He received his Master of Library Science degree from the City University of New York, Queens College in 2021, and a Bachelor of Arts in photography from Earlham College in 2014. He is also a photographer of sorts, with a practice of making and collecting images, and is his family's archivist. |
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