January 17, 2020 - Comments Off on 2020 LAAC Candidate Bios
Candidate Bios for LAAC Leadership Positions
Steering Committee, Events Chair, Publications Chair, Outreach Chair
More info about positions and the election process can be found in our bylaws.
Voting ends 1/31/2020. Thank you for your participation!
Steering Committee (3-year term)
Sarah Wade
Sarah Wade is a Special Collections Archivist at the Getty Research Institute. She earned her MLIS with an advanced certificate in archives and her MS in art history from Pratt Institute in New York. Prior to joining the GRI in 2018, Sarah worked in a variety of special collections repositories, including the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Library and Archives, the Boston Public Library Rare Books & Manuscripts Department, and the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Events Subcommittee Chair (1-year term)
Azatuhi Babayan
Azatuhi Babayan is currently the L.A. as Subject Resident Archivist at USC and consults in her free time. She received her MLIS from UCLA in 2017 and holds a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley. As a lifelong resident of the Los Angeles area, she is drawn to community- and neighborhood-based archives in the city because of the culturally and historically layered landscape, teeming with vital stories that speak to the past and can help envision futures. Azatuhi has been involved with LAAC since 2016 and with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project since 2018. As Co-Chair of the Social Events subcommittee, she looks forward to cultivating programs that serve and foster a symbiotic relationship between local archives, community organizations, and LAAC members.
Jasmine Larkin
Jasmine Larkin is currently the Accessioning Archivist at UCLA Library Special Collections. She received her MLIS with a specialization in Archival Studies from UCLA, and previously held positions at the Getty Research Institute and New York University. She has been an active member of the Events subcommittee for the past year coordinating tours to the Getty, the California African American Museum, and the Western Costume Company.
Outreach Subcommittee Chair (1-year term)
Rachel Rosenfeld
Rachel Rosenfeld is the Accessioning Archivist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library. She received her MLIS from UCLA in 2012, and started her work at the Oscars the same year. Before obtaining her graduate degree she previously held archive-related positions at the Directors Guild of America, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Museum of the Moving Image, Bonhams & Butterfields, and the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
Her interests include movies, television, the internet, Los Angeles history, and dogs. She has been a member of LAAC since its founding, but is excited at the opportunity to become more involved.
Publications Subcommittee Chair (1-year term)
Lori Dedeyan
Lori Dedeyan was most recently a Processing Archivist at UCLA Library Special Collections. She received her MLIS in 2014 and has worked in special collections ever since, previously at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. She enjoys writing on the intersection of art and archives and has done so in the past as a contributor to LAAC’s magazine, Acid Free.
I have been a member of the Publications Subcommittee for the past year and have enjoyed learning about its work during that time. One of the year’s highlights was working as a part of the Acid Free editorial team to bring its tenth issue, Roots, to fruition. This lovely issue also brought about an invitation to represent the one true Acid Free on a panel at the Acid-Free Art Book Fair.
It’s been a pleasure to learn from and work with my fellow subcommittee members, and look forward to drawing on this experience, as Publications Subcommittee Chair, to help guide the evolution of our work as we think about new projects for the coming year.
