Career Counselors

We have several Career Counselors available to assist you. Please read through the Counselors' biographies below, then make an appointment with a specific Counselor. Click on the Schedule an Appointment button at the bottom of the page. If you need help with the scheduling application please visit the Appointments page for detailed instructions.

Michelle Ganz (she/her), Director of Archives, Dominican Sisters of Peace

Specialties: Archival Processing, Assessment, Collection Management, Continuing Education and Training, Digital Archives, Digital Preservation, Donor Relations, Exhibits, Solo Archivist, Religious Archives

Institutional Experience: Academic, Museums, Private Archives, For-profit Archives, Government, Public Library

Career Development Areas: Professional Development, Networking, Job Search, Changing Careers, Changing Professional Focus, Navigating Difficult Workplace Conversations/Situations, Accessibility/Disability, Archival Trauma

Years in the Profession: 15+ years

Amanda Greenwood (she/her), Archivist, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

Specialties: Archival Processing, Collection Management, Digital Archives, Digital Preservation, Consulting/Freelance Work, Environmental Management, Exhibits, Instruction, Metadata and Description, Outreach, Privacy and Confidentiality, Project Management, Reference, Security, Trauma-Informed Practices, Writing and Publishing

Institutional Experience: Academic, Historical Society, Non-Profit, Solo Arranger

Career Development Areas: Changing Professional Focus, Early Career Development, Job Search, Networking, Navigating Promotion, Mid-Career Development, Professional Development

Years in the Profession: 4 - 6 years

Petrina Jackson is the Lia Gelin Poorvu Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library and Librarian of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She was the director of the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Syracuse University Libraries where she oversaw the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, University Archives, and all curated collections. Before Syracuse, she served at Iowa State University as the head of Special Collections and University Archives. Prior to that, she was the head of instruction and outreach at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and senior assistant archivist for the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University.

Jackson has been a member of the Society of American Archivists since 2002 and from 2018 to 2021 served on the SAA Council. In 2020, she was Chair of the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of the American Library Association, and since 2023, she has been a member of the Archives Leadership Institute Steering Committee. Jackson received a B.A. in English from the University of Toledo, an M.A. in English from Iowa State University, and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Meredith Kite (she/her), Collections Archivist, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries

Specialties: Archival processing, Assessment, Collection Management, Collection Management Tools, Continuing Education and Training, DEAIB taskforce work, Digital Archives, Media Preservation, Metadata and Description, Privacy and Confidentiality, Reference, Supervision and Management

Institutional Experience: Academic

Career Development Areas: Professional Development, Networking, Job Search, Changing Careers, Early Career Development

Years in the Profession: 6-10 years

Katy L. W. Klettlinger (she/her), Program Leader for Consulting Services, Lyrasis

Specialties: Archival processing, Assessment, Collection Management, Continuing Education and Training, Consulting/Freelance Work, Digital Archives, Digital Preservation, Donor Relations, Facilities, Outreach, Project Management, Reference, Security, Supervision and Management, Records Management

Institutional Experience: Academic, Government, Non-profit, Historical Society, Public Library

Career Development Areas: Professional Development, Networking, Job Search, Changing Professional Focus, Navigating Difficult Workplace Conversations/Situations, Early Career Development

Years in the Profession: 15+ years

Lindsey Loeper (she/her), Reference and Instruction Archivist, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Specialties: Archival processing, Continuing Education and Training, Exhibits, Instruction, Media Preservation, Metadata and Description, Navigating Accommodations, Project Management, Reference, Social Media, Supervision and Management, Visual Materials, Writing and Publishing

Institutional Experience: Academic

Career Development Areas: Professional Development, Navigating Promotion and Tenure, Changing Professional Focus, Early Career Development, Mid-Career Development

Years in the Profession: 15+ years

Dawne Lucas (she/her), Technical Services Archivist for Collection Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Specialties: Archival Processing, Collection Management, Accessioning, Arrangement and Description, Archives Space

Institutional Experience: Academic

Career Development Areas: Professional Development, Networking, Job Search, Early Career Development, Mid-Career Development, Navigating Difficult Workplace Conversations/Situations

Years in the Profession: 15+ years

Samantha Meier (she/her), Archivist for Discovery, Northern Arizona University

Specialties: Archival Processing, Assessment, Collection Management, Collection Management Tools, Continuing Education and Training, Donor Relations, Exhibits, Instruction, Metadata and Description, Project Management, Reference, Supervision and Management, Writing and Publishing

Institutional Experience: Academic, Government, Non-profit, Community Archives

Career Development Areas: Professional Development, Job Search

Years in the Profession: 3 - 5 years

Kimberlee Roberts (she/her), United States Air Force Academy Archivist

Specialties: Primary Source Instruction and Outreach, Government, Digital Archives, Collection Management, Navigating the Workplace, Archives Processing

Institutional Experience: Government-Federal, Academic

Career Development Areas: USA Jobs, Job Search, Professional Development

Years in the Profession: 9 years

Ishmael Ross (he/him, they/them) received their MLIS in 2021 and has worked across libraries, museums, and archives supporting access to cultural heritage and digital collections. They currently serve as Digital Archivist at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Ishmael offers mock interviews and résumé support, and is especially committed to working with people of color and LGBTQ+ communities.

Katherine Satriano (she/her), Head of Archives & Special Collections, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Specialties: Medical Archives, Museum Archives, Indigenous Archives, Academic Archives, Reference, Management, Instruction, Outreach and Community Engagement, Ethics, Photographic Collections

Years in the Profession: 13+ years

Patty Templeton (she/her), Collections Management Team Leader, National Security Research Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Specialties: Archival processing, Collection Management, Digital Archives, Metadata and Description, Outreach, Project Management, Supervision and Management

Institutional Experience: Academic, Corporate, Government, Public Library

Career Development Areas: Changing Careers, Job Search, Navigating Difficult Workplace Conversations/Situations, Networking, Professional Development

Years in the Profession: 6-10 years

Michelle Witt (she/her), Information Management Archivist, State Archives of North Carolina

Specialties: Collection Appraisal, Digital Preservation, Metadata Creation, Exhibition Development, Reference and Research Assistance, Project Management, Audiovisual Preservation, Outreach

Institutional Experience: Public, Private, Non-profit

Career Development Areas: Career Change, Job Search, Identifying and Clarifying Goals, Networking, Professional Development

Years in the Profession: 3 years

Tamar Zeffren (she/her), Director of Archival Partnerships, AJHS

Specialties: Archival Processing, Assessment, Collection Management, Continuing Education and Training, Consulting/Freelance work, Digital Archives, Digital Preservation, Donor Relations, Outreach, Privacy and Confidentiality, Project Management, Supervision and Management

Institutional Experience: Academic, Non-profit

Career Development Areas: Professional Development, Networking, Job Search, Changing Careers, Professional Development, Networking, Navigating Promotion and Tenure, Job Search, Changing Professional Focus, Navigating Difficult Workplace Conversations/Situations

Years in the Profession: 11 - 15 years