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2010 Pinkett Winners: Miranda N. Rivers and Vivian Wong

Rivers earned a bachelor's degree in History from Spelman College. She is currently pursuing an MA in History and MLS in Archive Management at Simmons College. She was also a Mellon Librarian Recruitment Fellow at the James B. Duke Memorial Library at Johnson C. Smith University in 2008, and received the Mellon Graduate Library School Scholarship in 2009. She is learning everything she can about the archive profession. She was an intern for Project SAVE: The Armenian Photo Archive Collection and has just received an internship at the Fredrick Law Olmsted archives National Park in Boston.

Wong is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at UCLA in Information Studies. She earned her bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies at Bryn Mawr College and her MFA from UCLA. She is interested in documenting, collecting, preserving and disseminating historical and cultural records in Asian American communities and archives in the Asian Diaspora. She comes to the profession as a filmmaker who created a film in 2005 about her grandmother from Malaysia titled, "Homecoming." It spurred her interest in documenting underrepresented communities. She recently was the Project Director and Producer of Chinatown Library Digital Archives Project, and oral history project with the Friends of the Chinatown Library in Los Angeles.

Congratulations to Miranda and Vivian. ________________________________________________________
Rose Roberto, AAC Roundtable webmaster, received a small grant from the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections AMARC to provide travel assistance to Washington, DC in August, where she is presenting a pre-conference workshop entitled Producing It Online: Planning & Expanding Your Exhibitions at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting.
_______________________________________________________ Danna Bell-Russel has been appointed as associate reviews editor, for American Archivist. She will work with editor Amy Cooper Cary to assemble reviews for the American Archivist volumes to be published in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Bell-Russel, a Fellow of SAA, served on its governing Council from 2001 to 2004 and as liaison with the AAC roundtable.

last updated: June 5, 2010