BOARD CHAIR

Former Subject librarian for Performing Arts, English literature and African American Studies at Ohio University, Athens OH. Permanent sabbatical since 2024. Previously living in NYC for 20 years as a theater producer and performer, she completed an MLS from Pratt Institute, and went on to earn MAs in Theater and Film. lorraine was co-curator for the Sustainability Film Series, which has been running since 2012. The series focuses on environmental issues, with a focus on social justice.

TREASURER

Charles is Cinema & Media Studies Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), where he has managed film, television, and media studies collections for over 15 years. He also works in Collection Services as Librarian for Germanic languages and literatures, managing Penn’s German, Dutch, and Scandinavian collections, and contributing to projects related to public services, outreach, information literacy, and technologies that support research services. He has an MSLS from the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC-Chapel Hill and a BA in World Languages (German and Russian) from Lewis & Clark College.

RECORDING SECRETARY

Johnnie is currently the Digital Services Librarian for Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, where he has worked for over 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology, and a MLIS in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in archival procedures, digitization, multimedia production, and copyright. He also oversees library technology and is the system administrator for the library.

ALVT COORDINATOR

Steven Guerrero is the Media Arts & Digitization Librarian at the University of North Texas where he serves as a subject librarian and liaises with faculty in the Media Arts department. He also digitizes obsolete magnetic tape based formats in an effort to preserve content endangered of being lost. He has worked in academic libraries for over 10 years and his scholarly contributions span a wide variety of topics including presentations on tabletop game circulation, creating captioning for streaming content, and a publication on creating a sustainable career development program for academic libraries.

 Cindy is the Music & Media Librarian at George Mason University where she teaches the graduate music research course. She also works closely with different Departments of the University and with student groups to support and provide information related to film screenings and copyright. With more than 20 years of experience in Library work, she has organized and led several film festivals on campus.

Elena Rossi-Snook is the Film Specialist at The New York Public Library and collection manager of the Reserve Film and Video.  She has an M.A. in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia and is a recipient of the Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation.  She has served as a curriculum consultant for New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program, on the Board of Directors of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and as chair of the AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force.  Elena’s documentary film We Got the Picture was made an official selection of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.  Rossi-Snook also teaches film history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Description goes hereArlin Golden is an all-around documentary professional living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area as a film director, producer, distributor, programmer, exhibitor, and theorist. He is co-director of Video Project, an impact-oriented distributor of documentary films, as well as director and programmer of Drunken Film Fest Oakland, a free event bringing world-class films into the democratized social space of local bars. He also co-hosts Wiseman Podcast, chronicling the films of documentarian Frederick Wiseman, which has been twice featured in BFI's Sight & Sound magazine. He received his BA in film studies from UC Santa Barbara, and has collaborated with filmmaker Brian Gersten on a number of documentary shorts, most recently Balloon Boy which is currently in festival distribution and was awarded "Best Short Shorector - International" by the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. His first short documentary as director, Back Yard, screened in 2020-21 at such fests as Ann Arbor, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and the inaugural Prismatic Ground.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Head of Media Services at Tulane, lisa also works with the Music and Dance & Theatre Departments to build collections and provide instructional and research support. She also is responsible for collecting film (physical and streaming) across all disciplines. Whenever possible, lisa works with campus partners to develop film-based programming opportunities.