Committee Members

Vina Begay, Co-Chair

Vina (Diné Nation) is the Assistant Librarian for the Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater. Before professionally working as a Librarian and Archivist, Vina worked in the Theater profession for 16 years, including low budget student films. Vina graduated with a Master of Business Administration and Master of Library and Information Science with a specialization in Archival Studies and Digital Information Management. Vina has dedicated her career to safeguarding, preserving, and advocating the implementation of the Protocols of Native American Archival Materials within western institutions to ensure proper care and management of Indigenous Information of traditional knowledge. Additionally, Vina has served as Tribal Archivist consultant for Tribal communities in assistance with establishing Indigenous Archival Centers within their community, including developing archival practices tailored to the Tribe’s cultural beliefs, practices, and governance structure.

Diana Marsh, Co-Chair

Diana E. Marsh is an Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool) and Past Chair of the Native American Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists. Her current research focuses on improving discovery and access to colonially-held archives for Native American and Indigenous communities.  Her recent work has appeared in The American Archivist, Archival Science, Archivaria, and The Public Historian, and her book, From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time was released in paperback in 2022 with Berghahn Books.

Previously, she worked at the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives (2017–2020) where she researched barriers to access among users of anthropological collections. From 2015–2017, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow at the American Philosophical Society where she conducted research and curated exhibitions drawing upon archival collections (Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia, April–December 2017 and Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America, April–December 2016). She completed her PhD in Anthropology (Museum Anthropology) at the University of British Columbia, an MPhil in Social Anthropology with a Museums and Heritage focus at the University of Cambridge in 2010, and a BFA in Visual Arts and Photography at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University in 2009. 

Megan K. Friedel

Megan K. Friedel is Lead Archivist and Head of Distinctive Collections & Institutional Memory for the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries.  In this role, she manages acquisitions, outreach, community relations, and strategic policy development for the CU Boulder Libraries' Archives, founded in 1918. An archivist for over 20 years, Friedel has previously held positions at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Oregon Historical Society, History Colorado, and the University of Alaska Anchorage. She received her MLS in 2002 and an MA History in 2004, both from Simmons College. Friedel is the co-author of Providing Access to Privacy-Protected Records at Public Institutions in the Age of Radical Empathy: Cases and Considerations (SAA Publications, 2025) and her work has appeared in The American Archivist and Journal of Western Archives.

Candace Pine

Candace Pine is the Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarian at the Walter Havighurst Special Collections and University Archives at Miami University, located in Oxford, Ohio. In this role, she performs a variety of duties, including cataloging, teaching, providing reference services, planning and participating in outreach and engagement activities, and processing manuscript collections. She is dedicated to finding ways to make archives more accessible to all, and to deepening the diversity of archival collections so they can provide fuller and more inclusive viewpoints. Candace’s other committee work currently includes serving as the Chair of the Manuscript Repositories Section, and as a Steering Committee member of the Women Archivists Section for SAA, and she is serving on the Midwest Archives Conference’s (MAC) Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Students of Color Committee. Candace holds a MLIS degree, with a concentration in Archives and Special Collections, from Kent State University, as well as a BA in English: Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. 

Jacob Savory

Jacob Savory (The Chickasaw Nation) is the long-term Native American Curatorial Fellow at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). His work at PEM includes exhibition development, collections research, publication support, and collaborative engagement with artists, scholars, Native communities, and institutional partners, with additional contributions to collection stewardship, public programming, and NAGPRA-related initiatives. Previously, he served as NAGPRA Coordinator at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and has worked across a range of cultural heritage settings, including libraries, archives, oral history, and digital preservation. Jacob holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons University, with a concentration in Archives Management, and a B.A. in English from Oklahoma State University. Ethical stewardship, repatriation, reparative efforts, and community-centered collaboration are foundational to his professional practice and inform his vision for the future of cultural heritage work.