Elizabeth Joffrion, Foundation Board of Director

Elizabeth Joffrion is the Director of Archives and Special Collections and associate professor at Western Washington University. In this role, she leads the Libraries’ Special Collections, University Archives and Record Center, and the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. She has also served as a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access.  She has held professional positions at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, the North Carolina State Archives, and the Historic New Orleans Collection. She has taught graduate courses on archives and special collections at Catholic University and Western Washington University. She has authored articles on archival topics, including community archiving, protocols for Native American archival materials, and the impact of climate change on cultural heritage.  She is the author of “Advancing Preservation for Archives and Libraries,” published by the Society of American Archivists in 2020 and Funding, Sustainability and Cross-Institutional Collaboration,” in Economic Considerations for Libraries Archives and Museums, published by Routledge Press, 2022.