Candidate Statement for 2016 LAGAR Co-Chair Election

My name is Keith Reynolds, I'm self identified cisgender gay male. and I was born and raised in Wyoming. I earned a master’s degree in public history from the University of Wyoming in 2011 and worked as an archivist at the American Heritage center for five years. I currently live in Utah and work for the Salt Lake City government doing records management. I spent two years working at the Utah AIDS Foundation, first as the HIV prevention coordinator and later as the client services coordinator.

I am slowly getting back into the archival world and would love to get more involved in SAA. I believe I would be a good co-chair because I have an archival background, a background in LGBTQ advocacy, and have served on a number of boards and steering committees in the past. I advised the LGBTQ student group at the University of Wyoming for five years, I organized a summer retreat for LGBTQ youth for two years, I served on the steering committee for the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, and was part of the steering committee tasked with creating a Queer Studies minor at the University of Wyoming. As a co-chair I would be very focused on moving forward with the current projects and increasing meaningful communication within the group as well as within the larger archival community.