Emily Pfotenhauer, Project Director
Emily is a Community Liaison and Service Specialist with WiLS, where she leads digital projects focused on expanding access to community-based collections. She manages the Recollection Wisconsin statewide digital collections consortium and is the project director for the CCDC program and for Recollection Wisconsin’s NEH-funded effort to digitize at-risk oral history recordings. Emily holds an M.A. in Art History and Material Culture Studies from UW-Madison. She lives in Madison with her husband, her 5-year-old daughter, and her 19-year-old cat.
Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator
In addition to her role coordinating all things CCDC, Vicki is an Associate Lecturer in the UW-Madison Information School, where she teaches online and in-person courses in archives and digital libraries and advises graduate students following the archives track. She has more than 15 years of experience managing complex technology projects, including administration of IMLS, NHPRC and LSTA grant-funded digitization projects for the UW Digital Collections Center and the UW-Madison University Archives. Vicki holds an MLIS from UW-Madison and a BA in History from the University of Nebraska.
Amy Rudersdorf, Project Consultant
AVP Senior Consultant Amy Rudersdorf has had a career focused on helping organizations preserve and provide maximal access to their digital content with good stewardship practice and quality metadata. Most recently, she developed data strategies and processes, and coordinated a national network of institutional partners for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a visionary, large-scale project that supports the public commons for cultural heritage community and provides a central public access point to millions digital assets from thousands of institutions throughout the US. At the State Library of North Carolina, Amy established and directed a nationally recognized digital collections and stewardship program.
Amy has taught graduate courses in metadata and preservation and contributes frequently to national and international conferences and digital preservation workshops. She has also served in advisory roles in contexts such as the Europeana Sounds Initiative and Institute for Museums and Library Services (IMLS) national leadership grants. Amy holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her family and tiny dog.
