Skip to Content

Faculty Bios

DIGITAL DIRECTIONS
Foundations for DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

April 22-24, 2025 (Tuesday-Thursday) * Online

 

Description Agenda Faculty Bios Registration Logistics Code of Conduct

 

 

 


  

Julianna Barrera-Gomez, Digital Accessions Specialist, Digital Preservation Services, Harvard University

 Julianna Barrera-Gomez is leading Harvard Library Digital Preservation Services’ new Digital Accessions Program (DAP), a centralized service supporting technical appraisal and digital forensics of digital content for Harvard University. Prior to her arrival, she worked in many capacities and roles in libraries and archives, spanning public services, technical services, digitization, and all aspects of archival management, most recently as Head of Digital Preservation and Stewardship at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University; an M.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Riverside; and an M.S. in Information from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 

 

  

Greg Cram, The New York Public Library

Bio forthcoming.
 

 


Photo of Katherine Fisher

  

Katherine Fisher, Head of Digital Archives, Rose Library, Emory University 

Katherine Fisher is head of digital archives at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, where she oversees acquisition, preservation, and access work for born-digital collections and provides leadership and expertise in digital preservation and digital collection management across Emory Libraries. Prior to joining Emory in 2020, she worked as digital preservation archivist at Georgia State University Library and digital publishing specialist at the University of Hawai‘i Press. Katherine is a former chair of the oversight committee for the Society of American Archivists' Digital Archives Specialist certificate program and a frequent instructor at the Georgia Archives Institute. She holds an MLIS from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a PhD in English from the University of Michigan.
 

 

 

 

  

Angela Fritz, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Iowa

Angela Fritz is Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Previously, she has held leadership positions at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the University of Notre Dame, and the Office of Presidential Libraries and Museums at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). In addition to teaching classes on archives and digital preservation, Angela has engaged in several national service roles relating to digital archives outreach, education, and advocacy. She has conducted workshops for the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH), and she is the author of Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. 
     

 

  

Afsheen Nomai, Library and Archives Manager, KEXP-FM Seattle

Afsheen Nomai is the Library and Archives Manager for KEXP radio in Seattle, WA. A graduate of the UT, Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film, his film production and exhibition background got him his start in the world of audiovisual archives. Prior to joining KEXP, Afsheen was Technical Director at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (2008 - 2019) and Audiovisual Archivist at the Austin History Center (2019 - 2023).

 
     

 

 


 

  

Lotus Norton-Wisla, Interim Head of Manuscripts, Archives & Digital Collections, Washington State University

Lotus Norton-Wisla is the Interim Head of Manuscripts, Archives & Special Collections at the Washington State University Pullman Libraries. Her work centers on relationship-building, digital collections stewardship, and education with interests in supporting partnerships at WSU, reciprocal relationships with Indigenous nations, and community-driven archives efforts. She supports outreach and collaboration, including co-founding the WSU Queer Archives Initiative with Josie Cohen-Rodriguez, and supporting the Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal. Lotus is a queer white cis woman originally from northern Wisconsin, and currently lives in Eastern Washington as a settler on the homelands of the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce Tribe) and Palus people. She has worked with colleagues at Indigenous nations as they steward materials and knowledge in their communities, most recently as a volunteer for the Indigenizing Archival Training.
     

 

 

 

  

Lindsey Richardson, Principal, Museum Person

Lindsey Richardson is an independent museum consultant who has degrees from Harvard and Oxford Universities, and more than 25 years’ experience working with museum collections. As a collections manager and curator of collections she managed successful cataloging, inventory, and digitization projects, as well as collections moves and deaccessions; wrote collections management policies, procedures documents and successful grant proposals to IMLS and NEH; and implemented and reported grant-funded projects. Lindsey has also developed exhibits of all sizes on a variety of topics, from research to installation, as well as developed and delivered public programs, online collections databases and other digital and interactive content. She has collaborated with educators and community-members on projects including artist installations, workshops and object-based distance-learning programs for school groups and senior citizens. Today Lindsey works as a collections consultant and as a curatorial advisor with several museums in Texas.
     

 

 

 

  

Sibyl Schaefer, Chronopolis Program Manager, University of California, San Diego

Sibyl Schaefer has published and presented extensively on digital preservation practice and infrastructure as well as digital archives workflow, description and management, and open source software. She serves as the Chronopolis Program Manager and Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of California, San Diego. She previously served as the Head of Digital Programs for the Rockefeller Archive Center where she worked to fully integrate digital and traditional archival practices, including policy development, forensic and accessioning workflows, and training initiatives to support the long-term stewardship of digitized and born digital materials. She has been recognized as an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and the Archival Leadership Institute. Schaefer holds an MLIS with a specialization in Archival Studies from UCLA.
     

 

 Ann-Marie-Willer

  

Ann Marie Willer, Director of Preservation, NEDCC

Ann Marie Willer has worked as a professional in the field of library preservation since 2002. She has expertise in preservation program management, digitization workflows and best practices, the preservation of paper-based and audio-visual materials, and emergency preparedness and response. She previously served as Preservation Librarian for the MIT Libraries and the University of North Texas Libraries and has pre-professional experience in special collections, exhibits, cataloging, and general collections conservation. Ann Marie earned an MS in Library Science from the University of North Texas, an MA in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music, and a certificate from Rutgers’ Preservation Management Institute.
     

 

 

  

Elliot Williams, Metadata Strategist, The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries

Elliot Williams is the Metadata Strategist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he focuses on metadata quality and interoperability across systems. He has over 10 years of experience working with metadata, and previously worked at Texas Digital Library as the DPLA Aggregation Service Coordinator and at the University of Miami as a metadata librarian. He previously taught an introductory metadata class for Library Juice Academy.  Elliot holds a Masters in Information Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in History from the University of Miami.