Work History

Current Position:
Digital Curation Librarian, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University (Spring 2018-present)

  • Develop curation strategies for digital collections and faculty scholarship projects
  • Coordinate faculty research data management
  • Provide consults on data management, analysis, and preservation
  • Teach workshops on research data management, digital preservation, and associated tools
  • Develop projects and protocols for the library’s digital preservation initiatives
  • Coordinate metadata projects, planning, and policy for faculty scholarship component of WFU’s digital repository (WakeSpace)

Previous Positions: 
Freelance Editor, American Journal Experts (2017-2018)

  • Provide journal editing services for international scholars

Digital Archives Consultant, The Sun Magazine (2013-2018)

  • Coordinate digitization plans and projects for nonprofit literary journal
  • Develop and execute plan to convert print issues to digital editions
  • Scan, convert, enter metadata, and upload completed issues to new digital platform

Digital Content & Communications Manager, MiracleFeet (2014-2016)

  • Develop and execute digital marketing strategies for children’s healthcare NGO
  • Manage website and coordinate content for social media platforms
  • Manage digital assets and newsletter development

Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant (2006-2008 and 2010-2014), UNC Chapel Hill School of Information & Library Science

  • Teach graduate-level courses for School of Information & Library Science
  • Assist full-time, tenured UNC SILS faculty with research and teaching tasks
  • Provide administrative coordination and research assistance on grant-funded digital preservation and e-records projects

Reader Services Coordinator, The Sun Magazine (2003-2006)

  • Manage circulation and administrative office
  • Respond to reader and writer inquiries

Complete list of Research/Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships

  • Doctoral Teaching Assistantship, UNC SILS, 2017-18
  • Doctoral Teaching Assistantship, UNC SILS, 2013-14
  • Closing the Digital Curation Gap (Research Assistantship), UNC SILS, Summer 2013
  • Graduate Fellowship, DigCCurr, Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum, 2010-13
  • Graduate Assistantship, NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowships, 2006-08
  • Graduate Assistantship, Duke University Archive of Documentary Arts, Spring 2008
  • Graduate Assistantship, Wilson Library Moving Image Archive, UNC, Fall 2007
  • Graduate Assistantship, Davis Library (Systems), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring-Summer 2008
  • Graduate Assistantship, iBiblio/Folkstreams.net, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2007