ABOUT ME

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metadata enthusiast–librarian archivist by trade

I’ve worked in libraries since 2010 & hold a Master’s in Library and Information Science. I am currently a Digital Archivist at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, GA. My research interests include born-digital preservation & arrangement, critical/equitable cataloging & archival description, and resource sharing to enhance gender inclusivity & racial equity in the cycling & outdoors scene through a gear library.

My previous roles include enhancing the discovery & integrity of 2.6 million resources as a Metadata Librarian at Georgia Tech Library, and serving as a Cataloging Librarian at SCAD Atlanta, where much of my joy came from describing artists’ books, as well as working beside students on the Library Student Advisory Board, Vegan Club, and with international students in CAPP.  I have also served as a Serials & Cataloging Librarian at Mechanics’ Institute–a library, chess room, & refuge for readers, writers & thinkers–where I was responsible for the discovery & selection of resources to the city dwellers of San Francisco.

My values…
– Privacy
– Equity + Diversity + Inclusion
– Access
– Non-censorship
– Knowledge preservation
– Collaboration

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When I tell people that I’m a Librarian, they usually want to know what to read [Last updated 2/1/2023].

Recommended for the burgeoning artist–
Agnes Martin writings
The art spirit / Robert Henri
Beer, art, and philosophy : a memoir : the act of drinking beer with friends is the highest form of art / Tom Marioni
A Giaccometti portrait / James Lord
Marcel Duchamp : the afternoon interviews / Calvin Tomkins
A people’s art history of the United States / Nicolas Lampert
Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag
Ways of curating / Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ways of seeing / John Berger
Why have there been no great women artists? / Linda Nochlin

Others I am likely to recommend –
Non-fiction:
Algorithms of oppression : how search engines reinforce racism / Safiya Umoja Noble
Argonauts / Maggie Nelson
Bad feminist / Roxane Gay
Citizen : an American lyric / Claudia Rankine
Dark tourist / Hasanthika Sirisena
The devil’s highway : a true story / Luis Alberto Urrea
Known and strange things : essays / Teju Cole
Men explain things to me; Hope in the dark : untold stories, wild possibilities / Rebecca Solnit
Minor feelings : a reckoning on race and the Asian condition / Cathy Park Hong
My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life (NYT Opinion) / Viet Thanh Nguyen
Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code / Ruha Benjamin
Revenge of the Patriarchs : Why Autocrats Fear Women (Foreign Affairs) / Erica Chenoweth & Zoe Marks 
Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom
The undocumented Americans / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
You can’t win / Jack Black

Fiction:
Afterparties : stories / Anthony So
Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Austerlitz / W.G. Sebald
Cathedral : stories/ Raymond Carver
East of eden; Grapes of wrath; In dubious battle / John Steinbeck
If on a winter’s night a traveler / Italo Calvino
The invention of morel / Adolfo Bioy-Casares
A little life / Hanya Yanagihara
The Patrick Melrose novels / Edward St. Aubyn
A secret history / Donna Tartt
The summer book / Tove Jansson

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There is no there there

In October 2016, I took hiatus from libraries to visit 7 countries in 7 months. Some of my favorite places in Asia, included the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage in Japan, Lanta Animal Welfare + Santisook Dog & Cat Rescue in Thailand, the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Ma Pi Long Pass in Vietnam, Bohol Island in the Philippines, trekking over the Thorang La in Nepal, & catching up with old friends & meeting new ones in Seoul, Korea.

Exactly a year later in 2017, I found myself in Atlanta, Georgia. I have grown so fond of the community; it’s history steeped in advocacy; the tree canopy that envelopes its sprawl of neighborhoods; the slow & small town feel in a metropolitan city. In spurts, I’ve been finding myself in other places, such as working in a school library in Xela, Guatemala, or bike camping in North Georgia with the Radical Adventure Riders. I am currently working to cultivate space for our FTW-NB / BIPOC cycling community, grow a gear library, and organize feminist birders with the Feminist Bird Club.