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Board of Directors

Stephanie Neel
President
president@nycarchivists.org

Stephanie Neel is an archivist based in New York City, working primarily with photography and performing arts collections. She has been the Archivist and Director of 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.


Michael Andrec
Treasurer

treasurer@nycarchivists.org 

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.


Oscar Zamora Flores

Secretary 
secretary@nycarchivists.org

Oscar Zamora Flores is an archivist at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY. He received his Master's degree in Library Science from Queens College, CUNY in the Fall of 2023. Oscar was part of the International Council on Archives (ICA) New Professionals Program 2021-2022 cohort, his project focused on assessing the needs of new professionals in the archives and records management field and how professional organizations can support them to succeed. Oscar’s career as an archivist began as a volunteer for the oral history program, Queens Memory, part of Queens Public Library, now his experience as an archivist includes UNICEF Archives, the Federal Highway Administration Specialized Research Library, and Bronx Community College Archives and Special Collections.


Kirk Mudle
Director of Advocacy
advocacy@nycarchivists.org

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.


Nicole Font
Director of Communications 

communications@nycarchivists.org

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.



Nicole K. Rivas

Director of Development
development@nycarchivists.org

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.



Herbert Durán
Director of Education
education@nycarchivists.org

Herbert Duran is the Archivist at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) where handles all aspects of the archives, from processing collections to participating in public programming and instructional sessions. Herbert is a former member of the A.R.T. Programming Committee, where he organized visits to places like The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and coordinated virtual webinars with the film restoration and distribution company Vinegar Syndrome. Prior to becoming an archivist, Herbert was a case worker at Housing Works, where he helped NYC residents find housing and obtain social benefits and entitlements. He holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute.

Cara Dellatte
Director of Membership 
membership@nycarchivists.org

Cara Dellatte is currently a Reference Archivist in the Rare Books and
Manuscripts division at the New York Public Library. Cara is dedicated to the notion that accessibility and sharing of knowledge can change society for the better and has a wealth of experience putting that into practice. For the past two years, she has co-chaired the NYPL's Public Services Council, a role which has allowed her to institute new paradigms of communication and collaboration across NYPL's research divisions. Most recently, she planned a research-library-wide conference: "Out of the Box: Innovation, Adaptation and Collaboration at NYPL Research Libraries, which showcased the ingenuity of NYPL staff and created space for knowledge-sharing


John Attanasio
Director of Outreach 
outreach@nycarchivists.org

John Attanasio has been part of ART since 1990 and have been part of the organization ever since. John has worked in a variety of organizations in both archives and records management, including the Rockefeller Archives Center and Foundation, the New York Public Library Music
Division, and several Pharmaceutical Industry companies.

Anton Sherin
Director of Programming
programming@nycarchivists.org

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.

Elizabeth Kobert
Director of Publications
metropolitanarchivist@nycarchivists.org

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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