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Work
Experience

2021 - Present

Collections Assistant for FBI Art Crime Team

▪    Prepare foreign and domestic objects for storage, shipping, and repatriation to source communities
▪    Conduct provenance research on objects to determine their culture of origin
▪    Supervise a team of graduate students to perform various on-site collections care tasks
▪    Regularly update the registration database and entered data into the online/public access database
▪    Regularly monitor and document climate of collections storage facility
▪    Implement and monitor Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in the collections facility
▪    Draft and revise NAGPRA Notice of Inventory Completion for Publication 

2021 - present

Teaching and Research Assistant for IUPUI Community Engagement Associates Program

▪    Co-design and taught a unit on proper object handling “Object Handling 101” and a unit on box making “Basic Box Making” for “Collections Care and Management” course
▪    Prepare and supervise hands-on collections labs (IPM, Collection Recovery Unit, Salvage, Soot)
▪    Create and update archival supply orders
▪    Facilitate lectures (virtual and in-person) with guest speakers (Insects Limited - Pat Kelley, National Museum of Natural History - Catherine Hawks, Indiana Medical History Museum - Sarah Halter)
▪    Assist professor with course preparations, such as: lab materials, hand-outs, lecture set-up
▪    Provide resources, clarification, and assistance to students

2021 - present

Curatorial Fellow for Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site

▪    Research and curate the special exhibit “No ‘Compact of Silence:’ Black Civil Rights Advocated in the Harrison Era” displayed in the Carriage House Gallery
▪    Contact other presidential sites, historical associations, and experts with knowledge of on Black civil rights advocates and held discussions about possible loan agreements
▪    Media interviews with local newspapers, tv shows, and radio stations to promote the exhibit opening
▪    Conduct research and interviews on Presidential Sites and Indigenous communities with other presidential scholars
▪    Inventory 2400+ books, newspapers, campaign ribbons, and other Harrison memorabilia 
▪    Assist in filling out loan agreements and returning loans to three different institutions in Indiana
▪    Create and update digital catalogue collections management system

2021

Collections Assistant for Tippecanoe County Historical Association

▪    Catalogued textiles and completed type-specific condition reports 
▪    Photographed textiles and uploaded information to PastPerfect 
▪    Matched textiles to older catalogue forms and updated location 
▪    Notified the Curator if there were any issues or concerns with the textiles 
▪    Carefully attached and sowed accession numbers to textiles 

2021

Volunteers at Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways       

  • Develop youth education programming and award recognition ceremony 

  • Compile research and resources for Integrated Pest Management of Indigenous collections

  • Conducted research to find information and documents of the Mt. Pleasant Indian Boarding School and report to the Ziibiwing Center Archivist

2018 - 2020

Circulation Desk Worker at Duggan Library

  • Tended to any questions of visitors, professors, and students

  • Shelved books and checked shelves to maintain correct order

  • Removed books from shelves that needed repaired spines and filled out condition reports

  • Received Inter-Library Loans and filled out proper reporting of packages

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2018

Archaeology Student in Archaeological Methods Training Course

▪    Researched the history of Eleutherian College and prior excavations  
▪    Kept a daily report journal of recorded data findings, their location, and conditions 
▪    Developed proper skills of handling and documenting of iron nails, glazed ceramics, and organic matter 

Education

2020 - 2022

Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis | Master’s Degree

Major: Museum Studies

2016 - 2020

Hanover College | Bachelor's Degree

Major: English

Minors: Archaeology and Art History

Skills
& Expertise

  • PastPerfect and FileMaker Pro Collections Management System

  • Event Planning

  • Community Collaboration

  • Microsoft Office 365

  • Proficiency in Zoom Set-Up and Facilitation

  • Provenance Research

  • Courier Experience for Returning Loans

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