Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Master’s of Science in Library Science (2011)
- 2012 SAA Theodore Calvin Pease Award Recipient
- Dean’s Achievement Award Nominee
- Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Studies Honor Society
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting
- Summa cum laude
Courses, Conferences, & Workshops
- Archives
- Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh:
- Family Archiving & Heirlooms (2016)
- THATCamp Community Archives (UNC 2015)
- CurateGear (UNC 2013, 2012)
- Society of American Archivists Digital Archive Specialist (DAS) Program Curriculum:
- Standards for Digital Archives (2012)
- Using & Understanding PDF/A as a Preservation Format (2012)
- Beginner’s Guide to Metadata (2012)
- Basic Electronic Records (2012)
- Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (2012)
- Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Conference (2012)
- Genealogy
- Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research (Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama):
- Advanced Methodology & Evidence Analysis (2016)
- Research in the South: Colonies of the South (2015)
- The Trans-Mississippi South (2014)
- Understanding Land Records (2013)
- Intermediate Genealogical and Historical Studies
- Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy:
- Finding Immigrant Origins (2015)
- Research in the South (2014)
- Military Records: From Service to Grave presented by Craig Roberts Scott (North Carolina Genealogical Society, 2013)
- Who is YOUR Ancestor? presented by George G. Morgan (North Carolina Genealogical Society Workshop, 2013)
- Genealogy Done Right presented by Thomas W. Jones (North Carolina Genealogical Society Workshop 2012)
- Researching and Preserving African American History Workshop (University of North Carolina Wilson Library 2012)
- National Genealogical Society Conference (1994, 1996, 1999, 2011, 2012)
- Brigham Young University Annual Genealogy & Family History Seminar (1988)
- Libraries
- The Best Young Adult Books of the Decade & How to Use Them in Your Program (2007)
- Increasing the Effectiveness of Your School Library Program (2007)
- Booktalks Quick & Simple (YALSA Professional Development Online: Instructor Nancy Keane 2007)
- Technology
- Web Design (Skillsology, 2016)
- Basic WordPress (Skillsology, 2016)
- Maps and the Geospatial Revolution (Coursera, 2013)
- Other
- From Book to Screen: Literature & Film (UNC Program in the Humanities & Human Values 2008)
- WWII, the Pacific Arena: American Plans for Victory presented by Gerhard Weinberg (UNC Program in the Humanities & Human Values 2009)
- From Defeat to Victory: The World at War, 1942 presented by Gerhard Weinberg (UNC Program in the Humanities & Human Values 2007)
- Accounting Continuing Professional Education (40 hours per year)
Professional Memberships
- Archives
- Society of American Archivists (SAA)
- Libraries
- American Library Association (ALA)
- Genealogy
- National Genealogical Society (NGS)
- Other
- UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Alumni Association (SILSAA)
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
- Mensa
Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past . . . The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.
— George Orwell, 1984