I write freelance, research, & technical pieces on sociotechnical issues in data.

My expertise is in systems, data structures, & decolonization.

I write about open access, DAM, digital preservation, AI, Archives, gaps in technical standards, metadata, Indigeneity, decolonization, the psychological skill radical acceptance, climate change, and human rights.

My recent works have appeared in DAM News, Bloomsbury's History of Emotions Series, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, First Monday, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, and Journal of Digital Asset Management.

writing Awards

Winning Article: Archivists and Emotional Labor: Preserving Personas and Personal Identities in Archives won the 2025 best Article Award for it's important and thoughtful consideration of the public perception of archival work through time.

The book in which the writing appeared was also selected for the Society of American Archivists’ 2025 Waldo Gifford Leland Award, which recognizes monographs or documentary publications of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice.

Winning Article: Archives, Decolonization, and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty: An Examination of Accessibility Barriers to Indigenous Federal Recognition Research in the United States won Society of American Archivist's award for most outstanding essay dealing with some facet of archival administration, history, theory, and/or methodology published in American Archivist.

technical writing & research

I've authored 100+ white papers, peer-reviewed articles & chapters, developer docs, case studies, knowledge base documentation, tutorials, procedures, spec sheets, survey reports, and user manuals. Topics include open access, DAM, digital preservation, archives, Indigenous collection management, product features and functionality, data science, technical specifications of systems & standards.

I've authored 100+ white papers, articles, dev docs, case studies, & more.

Below is a sampling of the kinds of things I've published & written.

My stories and prose as part of interactive designs have appeared in Toronto Metropolitan University's Interactive Film and Media Conference and as indie video games on the world's largest indie game platform, itch.io.

I've done qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed research including IRB Studies, professional white papers, archival and historical research & created prototypes, mock-ups, data visualizations, websites, training manuals, and technical support documentation.

Featured in DAM News on Why the Disconnect & Dissonance of the DAM Fragmentation Crisis Matters

Published first issue of the zine, I AM EXHAUSTED BY YOU

Featured in DAM News on Considerations for Open-Source DAM Solutions

Published in Archives and Emotions (London: Bloomsbury) on Archivists & Emotional Labor

Published in Collections about the DAM and systems used to make a rapid-response archive about COVID-19

Published in the Journal of Digital Media Management on a content analysis of DAM jobs on library & archives boards

Featured on Native-lands.ca for my Searching for Paumanok (Long Island Indigenous LC Authorities assessment)

Featured in Metropolitan Archivist for my freelance data work on AI, webcomics, & data science

Published in Toxic Dynamics (Chicago: ACRL Publications) on Librarian Mentorship through Mutual Scholarship

Published in Transforming Technical Services (New York: ALA Editions) on Assessing Metadata Competences for a Multi-System Migration

Published in the Journal of Library Administration on the Trusted Digital Repository technical standard

Published blog for the Digital Library Federation about interview results from practitioners on Remote Transfers and Site Visits for Born-Digital Collections

Published blog for the Digital Library Federation about how cultural heritage institution changed their metadata.cataloging during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published blog for the Digital Library Federation about Rapid Metadata Assessment

Published blog for the Digital Library Federation about Issues in Authority Control with Name Authority Records and Platform User Experience Design

Published Looker dashboard & white paper with the Digital Library Federation about survey results/data analysis of Costs of Digitizing Still Images

Published white paper with the Digital Repository of Ireland on Harmonising, Streamlining, or Improving Metadata and Semantics in the Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Landscape

i've written a lot on indigenous cultural heritage issues like LC Authorities, NAGPRA's Reach in archives, and traditional knoweldge labels (TK LABELS).

My works includes Archives, Decolonization, and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty, a introspective look at the accessibility barriers to federal recognition research (American Archivist, 2023), and Open Access Mandates and Indigenous Materials, a practitioners guide to open access issues with Indigenous collections (Museum Computer Network, 2021).

I often write about decolonization & Indigenous relations (knowledge, bodies, & collections) in cultural heritage institutions.

My expertise is in systems, digital archives, open access, recognition politics, & accessibility (yes, not access!) for North American communities & state-recognized US-based tribes.

“(Re)moving Indigenous Knowledge Boundaries: A Review of Library and Archives Collection Literature Since the Enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA),” Collection Management

“UX Design in Online Catalogs: Practical Issues with Implementing Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels,” First Monday

“Understanding Constraints to Adaptation Using a Community-Centred Toolkit,” Phil Transactions B

“Searching for Paumanok: A Study of Library of Congress Authorities and Classifications for Indigenous Long Island, New York,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

“Relational Possibilities: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence in Artful Digital Storytelling with Black and Indigenous Aesthetic Forms,” Interactive Film and Media Journal

“From Pathfinder to Indigenized: An Assessment of LibGuides for Indigenous Studies by ARL Member Institutions,” College & Research Libraries