Rebekah Bain
Rebekah Bain is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the MA History and Master of Library Information Science programs, with a concentration in archival studies. She graduated in May 2018 from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse with a BA in Public and Policy History, where she worked at the Special Collections and Area Research Center. Rebekah currently works as a Program Assistant for the Hmong Diaspora Studies at UW-Milwaukee.
Georgia Brown
Georgia Brown began her academic career at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where she earned a BA in History. She is currently enrolled in her second year of the coordinated MLIS & MA History program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She works at the American Geographical Society Library, and her career goals are to become a map librarian or with interests like outreach, instruction, and reference. Her passion for preservation came from a realization that access to primary sources for academic research, genealogy, and history being accessible to more people. Georgia’s hobbies are cooking, puzzles, and hiking with her dog Oreo.
Claire Flood
Claire is a first year MA student with a concentration in Archives from the University of Wisconsin’s Information School. After receiving her BA in Art-History from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, she moved to New York City where she worked for a modern art gallery. While organizing and cataloging the gallery’s historical records, Claire discovered her fascination with archives and enrolled in UW-Madison’s MA program. In her spare time Claire enjoys spending time with her family in Minnesota and in Spain, visiting museums, researching the past, reading, watching and participating in sports, and exploring the great outdoors.
Danielle Fulwiler
Dani is interested in preservation, curation, and outreach within museums and archives. During her undergraduate studies, she majored in History, Humanistic Studies, and First Nation Studies. Currently, she is in her second year at the UW-Madison iSchool and stays busy working as a processing assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives. In between school and work, she enjoys spending time with her two cats, drinking lots of coffee, and traveling as much as possible.
Taylor Kelley
A long time ago, Taylor Kelley graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a BFA in writing, literature and publishing. After several years of soul-searching, personal growth, and playing in punk bands, Taylor ended up at UW Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, where she’s currently working toward a MLIS. She’s especially interested in archiving as activism and how digitization can increase accessibility and foster representational belonging. When she’s not geeking out over archival theory, Taylor likes traveling, drinking coffee and watching bad TV.
Dale Meinholz
Dale Meinholz is a graduate student in the MLIS program at UW-Milwaukee, concentrating in archives. He has an MSE from UW-Whitewater and a BSE in Secondary English and Spanish from UW Oshkosh. During the school year, Dale works as a library media specialist for the Dodgeville School District and spends his summers working at Taliesin in Spring Green. Outside of work, he is a member of the public library board and the historic preservation commission for the City of Dodgeville.
Sam Steingraeber
I currently live in Milwaukee and have lived in Wisconsin my whole life. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse in 2017 with a BA in History and am currently in my first year of the MLIS program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Throughout my undergraduate career I volunteered at the La Crosse County Historical Society and the Milwaukee County Historical Society. These two opportunities sparked an interest in preservation of the past and had me consider how I could play a role in that preservation. In between school and working I enjoy playing tennis, biking, and cooking.
Stephanie Surach
Stephanie is originally from Jersey City, NJ and is currently working toward a master’s degree in Library and Information Science at UW-Milwaukee. After receiving her BA in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and Film and Audiovisual Studies, she spent many years in the corporate world working in video production and post-production and project management. She is currently an intern at the UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library in the Collection Resource Management Division. Stephanie is interested digital stewardship and helping cultural heritage institutions manage, preserve, and provide long-term access to their digital materials in a way that is feasible and sustainable for institutions to maintain their digital collections.
Laura Vavrosky
Laura Vavrosky is a student at the UW-Madison iSchool who loves organizing, finding ways to increase efficiency in routine tasks, and anything related to metadata. She’s been intrigued by the idea of improving access to local historical collections through digitization ever since she started volunteering at her local historical society as a teenager, and she hopes her CCDC experience will help her learn how to support cultural heritage institutions with their digitization projects. When she’s not working at her public library or studying, she enjoys baking, hiking, singing, and reading.
Kristen Whitson
Combining a love of history, stories, and people, Kristen Whitson is a first-year graduate student at UW-Madison’s iSchool and is specializing in archives. Kristen earned her bachelor’s degree at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, where she lived for ten years before returning home to Wisconsin. She’s looking forward to learning more about digital preservation and curation as the future of the archives field. Kristen and her wife have two teenage daughters, four (soon to be eight!) chickens, and one spoiled cat. She enjoys baking for all her iSchool friends, faculty and staff, reading about critical perspectives on academia for fun, everything glitter and tending to her family’s large indoor and outdoor gardens.
