Jessica believes deeply that preservation is collaborative, iterative, and works in service to access. She is the current Preservation Manager for the Boston Public Library and former Director of Preservation Services for the Northeast Document Conservation Center. Her experience has been focused on preservation in a special collections and research environment, and covers aspects from planning a large collections moves and space renovation to working with collections and facilities staff to make the best of existing resources for collections care and access. She has spoken extensively on preservation topics to a wide range of audiences, has written and managed large grants, and has performed general preservation assessments for dozens of cultural heritage institutions across the US.

Jessica received her MLIS with a concentration in Archival Management from Simmons College in 2009.

Areas of consultation: preservation assessments and trainings related to paper-based, photographic, and audiovisual materials; moving and renovating; project planning; procedure development; preparing collections care job descriptions, hiring, and on-boarding; and grant writing.

Ashley Blewer is an audiovisual archivist and software developer. She has worked for MediaArea, Artefactual Systems Inc., New York Public Library, and University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections, for small archives collections, and in the private sector. As an educator, Ashley has taught information technology fundamentals at Pratt Institute, led several half-day workshops on MediaConch and QCTools, led multi-day events focused on the Archivematica digital preservation software, and given dozens of educational conference presentations on audiovisual technology. Ashley is the author of the Illustrated Guide to Media Formats series (published by Archives of Tomorrow) and the Pragmatic Audiovisual Preservation (published by Digital Preservation Coalition). She holds a Master of Library and Information Science as well as a Bachelor of Art in Graphic Design from the University of South Carolina and is a graduate of the Flatiron School’s Web Immersive program. She is an active contributor to many open source software and resources for audiovisual preservation.

Areas of consultation: digital preservation program assessments, preservation systems and solutions, audiovisual media preservation, time based media preservation, open-source software implementation.

Megan is an objects conservator with a specialization in textile and plastics-based collections. As the Isabel Bader Research Fellow at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, they are performing research on preventing and interventive conservation treatment for cellulose acetate in collections, and coatings for steel sculpture. Megan obtained an MPhil  in textile conservation from the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History at the University in Glasgow, an ALM in museum studies through Harvard University Extension School, as well as a BFA in industrial design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Their past work experience includes the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in objects conservation at Historic New England, and technical, archives, and exhibition work at Harvard University’s libraries and museums. Graduate work placements were undertaken at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Glasgow Museums Burrell Collection in Scotland, and the University of Glasgow’s Tapa: Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Space research project with institutional partners at the Hunterian Museum of Glasgow, Kew Royal Botanical Gardens of London, and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.  Prior to a career in conservation, Megan worked in collections management and translational research with biopathology specimens. Recent publications include topics such as plastics collections in historic houses, and novel uses of insecticidal netting for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of collections.

Areas of Consultation: Interventive and preventive conservation, objects and textiles, costume mounting and flat mounting of textiles, storage and re-housing, materials analysis, IPM, condition surveys, environmental monitoring, research and technical analysis.

Stefan is an information management professional and educator whose engagement with preservation and digital repository services in the cultural heritage space spans the areas of digital preservation, repository service management, applications development, digital asset management, and digital scholarship. His past appointments include positions with AVP Information Management Solutions, the Samvera application development team for Avalon Media System, WNET Channel 13 Digital Archive, and preservation units within major university libraries including Stanford University, New York University, Northwestern University, and University of California San Diego.

 Stefan holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University and certificates of completion from Harvard University's Library Leadership in a Digital Age, ScrumAlliance's Scrum Master Certification Program, the Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorization Body's High Level Training Course on ISO16363 for Auditors and Managers of Digital Repositories, MIT's Digital Preservation Management Workshop, FIAF's Analogic and Digital Film Restoration Program, and Rath and Strong Management Consultants' Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Program.

Areas of consultation: Tools and Technologies for Digital Asset Management and Access, Digital Preservation, Audiovisual Preservation, Digital Reformatting, Grant Writing and Management, Staff and Workflow Management

Joey Heinen is a digital preservation and time based media specialist, currently serving as Digital Preservation Manager in the Collection Information and Digital Assets Department and head of the Time Based Media Committee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He graduated from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program at NYU in 2014. During his tenure he worked in NYU's film preservation lab, digitized audio for Anthology Film Archives, and served as a media collection and digitization assistant for new media artists Steina & Woody Vasulka. Following this he was selected for the National Digital Stewardship Residency at Harvard Library. He currently serves on the American Institute for Conservation's Electronic Media Group board as Secretary/Treasurer and the planning committee for the TechFocus conference.

Areas of consultation: Audiovisual preservation, digital preservation, organizational management, digital and audiovisual collection assessment.

Julia (she/her) is a Digital Projects Coordinator and software Product Manager developing applications used worldwide. She is responsible for product strategy and vision, and ensures that the end-users are represented through the development process. She is also versed in software beta, alpha, regression testing, rapid-prototyping, and software distribution platforms. She is also an experienced Digital Assets Manager and Digital Assets Specialist who developed workflows for born-digital and digitized multi-format collections for preservation and access (2015 - 2020) at a major ethnographic archive. From 2014-2015, she was a National Digital Stewardship Resident during which time she developed born-digital workflows from accession to access, and developed case studies on born-digital emulations and patron reception of them. In 2013, she co-founded XFR Collective (2014), a nonprofit that provides affordable and accessible audiovisual migration services and support.

She has published widely with Code4lib, JCAS, IASA, and blogs like the Library of Congress’s “The Signal” on digital workflows, audiovisual case studies, emulation, the digital stewardship field and patron/user-studies. She has a B.A from Columbia University in Religion and an M.A. from New York University in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. She is PMI-Certified. For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaykim1/

Areas of consultation: digital preservation, digital systems and workflows, audiovisual preservation and access, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Product Management, Project Management, software development, (patron) user studies, UX interaction Design and wireframing

A native New Yorker from Queens, Lorena Ramírez-López has worked as a moving image specialist for almost a decade within archives, libraries, museums and institutions. She is an active member at the Association for Moving Image Archivists where she is co-chair of the International Outreach Committee and curriculum coordinator for the Pathways program that supports pathways into the audiovisual preservation field for people from groups historically underrepresented in the profession. She’s also a member of XFR Collective in NYC and the Community Archiving Workshop group. She went to the Flatiron program for web development where her final project was an open-source software program that organizes and inventories audiovisual collections. She since has learned various programming languages to facilitate digital preservation and access.  Currently Lorena is a consultant at Myriad and community manager for the webrecorder project.

Areas of consultation: Digital preservation systems and implementation, time-based media preservation

Katie is the Preservation Librarian at Northwestern University Libraries, a position she has held since 2010. She manages collections care and preventative conservation programs, such as environmental monitoring, and is involved with audiovisual preservation. She has a Master of Science in Information Studies with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Preservation Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Past work experience includes: projects at UT's Alexander Architectural Archive and the Video Game Archive, internships at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Yale University Library, and positions at Powell's Books and the Harry Ransom Center's Film Collection. She is active in preservation sections of the American Library Association and has organized and participated in outreach projects as part of ALA's annual conferences for several years.

Areas of Consultation: Preservation and collection assessments, environmental monitoring, collections storage planning and practices, integrated pest management, disaster recovery

Erica (they/them) is the Associate Head of Repository Services within the Library and Information Technology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). In this position they coordinate staff charged with digitization of Wilson Special Collection materials, and serve as Project Director on a Mellon-funded initiative to preserve audiovisual recordings for UNC-CH and partner institutions across the state of North Carolina. Erica is also the Product Owner of the open-source audiovisual database management application, Jitterbug.

From 2013-2014 they were a Library of Congress National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, working to produce best practices and recommendations for museums collecting digital media artworks. Erica received their M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and their B.S. in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College.

Areas of consultation: Audiovisual preservation, grant writing, copyright, digital preservation, and technologies/tools

Joel Wurl retired from the federal government in August, 2020. He was deputy director of the Division of Preservation & Access, National Endowment for the Humanities. Prior to joining NEH in October, 2006, he was part of the leadership team of the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center ending there as Head of Research Collections and Associate Director. During that tenure, Wurl was a consultant and advisor for several immigration-related projects undertaken by museums, historical societies, libraries, and civic organizations locally and beyond. He served from 2003-06 on the board of directors for the International Institute of Minnesota, an organization serving the needs of new Americans. From 2007-13, Wurl also served as an Adjunct Instructor in the Applied History program at George Mason University. He was elected to the council and executive committee of the Society of American Archivists and was named a Distinguished Fellow of SAA in 2007. Wurl’s publications have appeared in public history and immigration/ethnic history journals and include the online resource “North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories,” published by Alexander St. Press, for which he served as general editor.

Areas of Consultation: Grant writing, grants management