Role: Intern

Serene Wolfden is pursuing MSIM and MLIS master’s degrees in archives and digital curation at the University of Washington. Their work centers on community archives, museum projects focused on cultural memory, and digital archives. Serene has done archival work, preservation, and translation for the Smithsonian Institution department of Folklife and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. …

Elise is an MLIS graduate student at the University of Arizona. Her main focus is family and community archiving. She is interested in how spaces can be used for community building and education, and in the international reach of local initiatives. While interning with the Mexican American History and Heritage Museum, Elise has transcribed recordings…

Cosmo is an experimental filmmaker from Tucson, Arizona, and is currently a graduate student in the MLIS program at the University of Arizona. Their work focuses on archival practices for film and digital media. As an intern at the AQA, they have worked on updating video quality, restoring audio for oral history videos and cassette…

Crystal is an MLIS graduate student at the University of Arizona. Her focus is on public librarianship and archives, specifically bringing non-dominant perspectives to light and cultivating inclusive spaces to serve multicultural communities. As a FOCAS intern, Crystal has assisted with processing, creating displays, and exhibit work. The work at Dunbar provides Crystal first hand…

Leo is a second-year MISt student at McGill university who has been centring his studies around archival practices and digitization. While their academic interests in the field of information studies are many, their experience with archaeology and their BA in Classical Studies have encouraged them to pursue further the study of archival history and the…

Madison Lemke (she/her) is an aspiring archivist completing her final year of a Masters of Information Studies degree at McGill University. With a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, her academic and research interests include visual culture, critical theory, and the preservation and curation of photographic materials. Her internship with CIDIHCA (le…

J.J. Watson-MacKay (he/him) is a father and a second-year graduate student, soon to be completing his Master of Library and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) iSchool. His memory work interests include reference services, readers’ advisory, Black Diasporic studies, research guides, and trauma-informed community capacity building through archives and libraries. Through FOCAS,…

Lauren St. Clair (she/her) is pursuing a Dual Master of Archival and Library Studies (MAS/LIS) through the School of Information at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She works with Vanessa Lee at the VIVO Media Arts Centre, an artist-run centre, in the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive (CDMLA), processing and describing video art…

Mina Guan (she/her) is an aspiring information professional currently pursuing a Master of Archival Studies and Library and Information Studies at UBC. With the FOCAS project, she is conducting archive feasibility research for Hogan’s Alley Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying the presence of Black history in Vancouver and British Columbia. Intentionality, relationships, and…

Vanessa Lee (she/her) is a Dual Master of Archival Studies and Library and Information Studies student at the University of British Columbia. With an interest in artists’ records, she is committed to surfacing the contributions of those written out of canonical narratives through a person-centered archival practice. As a FOCAS intern, Vanessa is working with…