Welcome New Member-At-Large & Co-Chair

Hi everyone,

I am excited to announce our newly elected steering committee members- Denise Gallo and Gailyn Bopp. Denise Gallo will serve as Member-At-Large and Gailyn Bopp as Co-Chair/Chair-Elect. Listed below are their bios as refresher.

I want to thank all the candidates again for stepping up to support the section as well as all the section members who participated in our elections.

Denise Gallo
Provincial Archivist of the Religious of Jesus and Mary

Denise Gallo has served as Provincial Archivist for the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Warwick,R.I. since 2018. Prior to that, she held the same position for the Daughters of Charity, Provinceof St. Louise, Emmitsburg, MD. Dee’s transition to religious archives came after 10 years asHead of Acquisitions and Processing at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Dee has been a member of ARCS, having served as Section Chair in 2013-2014. She was awarded the Sr. M. Claude Lane Award in 2016. In addition to SAA, she holds membership in the New England Archivists.

She also is active as a Mentor for the Archivists for Collections of Women Religious and has served as that group’s president in 2018. She has recently completed research for ACWR’s NHPRC Collaborative Archives grant project on their List of Catholic-operated Native Boarding Schools in the United States. She also serves as an advisor for the Franciscan Central Archive.

Gailyn Lehuanani Bopp, MLISc

University Archivist, Brigham Young University-Hawaii 

Gailyn Lehuanani Bopp is a kanaka maoli woman from Oʻahu in the Hawaiian archipelago, and works at Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi as University Archivist and as Assistant Professor of Theatre.  As University Archivist, Gailyn stewards the collections of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as pertaining to the Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi campus, the history of the Church in the Pacific, and the community of Lāʻie and the Oʻahu Ko’olauloa region.  Gailyn graduated with her MLIS degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with emphasis in Archives, and has formally served in leadership and on various boards and committees of the Association of Hawaiʻi Archivists and the Hawaiʻi Library Association.

 Best,

Beaudry Allen

Chair of SAA ARCS