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  • 6/15/2023 1:00 PM CDT
  • 6/15/2023 2:00 PM CDT
  • 5/15/2023 11:45 PM CDT
  • Virtual
  • Rachael Woody

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How can you improve your working life while still on the clock? Panelists will discuss self-advocacy strategies when leaving your job isn’t an option. Attendees will be guided to identify their professional values and align their decision-making in terms of choosing what work to take on and what avoid, delegate, minimize, or abandon entirely. Panelists will discuss professional identity as it relates to the pervasive phenomenon of vocational awe (Ettarh, 2018) and share their own experiences with self-conceptualization and self-determination in the workplace. Panelists will address thorny issues like inequitable and oppressive workplace power dynamics by sharing their experiences setting boundaries, managing up and around, finding peer support within and across institutions, and taking action to change harmful work cultures. They will reflect on their own strategies for having difficult conversations with leaders, peers, and supervisees to improve working conditions for all.

Instructors:

Rachael Cristine Woody is the Founder + Director of Relicura™ LLC, a firm that provides services to archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. Woody specializes in collection assessment, establishing archival programs, and launching digital collections. She served on SAA’s Committee on Public Awareness, founded the Archivist-in-Residence (paid internship) program at Northwest Archivists, and offers monthly webinars on professional topics including Burnt Out in Glam World, Hello, Imposter, How Much am I Worth?, and Your Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste. Woody is a “people first” advocate and has honed her career and advocacy work at both the National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Oregon Wine History Archive at Linfield University, before founding her company: Relicura™ LLC. All Relicura™ webinars are available to the public at https://www.youtube.com/@Relicura.

Sandy Rodriguez (she/her/hers) is the Associate Dean of Special Collections & Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. In this role, she is responsible for administrative leadership for rare books and manuscripts, university archives, sound archives, digital projects, and cataloging and metadata; advancing the Libraries' diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and building the Libraries’ partnership with the UMKC Center for Digital and Public Humanities. From 2018-2020, she served as a Co-Principal Investigator for an IMLS National Leadership in Libraries grant-funded project, Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions. Aimed at developing ethical labor practices for grant-funded digital libraries, archives, and museums workers, the forums culminated in the development of The Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit.

Sam(antha) Meier (she/her/hers) serves as the Archivist for Discovery at Cline Library's Special Collections and Archives (SCA) at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. In this role, she oversees the processing, arrangement, and description of SCA’s archival holdings, including born-digital, digitized, and analog materials. Her team typically includes one permanent full-time staff member, grant-funded or contract archivists and staff members, graduate interns, and student employees. Sam is committed to mentoring her staff, undergraduate and graduate students, and early-career information professionals. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Arizona Archives Alliance, an SAA Career Counselor, an SAA Mentor, and an SAA Native American Archives Section steering committee member, as well as the current spokesperson for Cline Library’s Council of New Academic Professionals (CNAPS). Sam received the Arizona Library Association’s Emerging Leader Award in 2021.

Shaneé Yvette Willis is the director of Community Engagement of the Digital Public Library of America, supporting a national network of more than 5,000 contributing cultural heritage organizations to advance the preservation, dissemination, and use of our shared digital heritage. She also stewarded partnerships and curation for the Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection. Prior to joining DPLA, Shaneé led the collection of campus records and a community archives project with local churches at the University of West Georgia as University Archivist and assistant professor where she was named Faculty Member of the Year in 2018. Previously she was Director of Library Services and Archivist at Payne Theological Seminary, where she curated the Payne Theological Seminary and African Methodist Episcopal Church Digital Collection and was Project Coordinator of the Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection at Duke Divinity School. She was the 2019 President-Elect of the Society of Georgia Archivists and serves on the Board of Directors of Atla, formerly known as the American Theological Library Association.Shaneé holds a B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Bethune-Cookman University, the Master of Divinity from Drew Theological School, and a Master of Library Science from North Carolina Central University.

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Employees of SAA Member Institutions: $0

Nonmembers: $0