Sarah Ponichtera, Foundation Board of Director

Sarah Ponichtera is the Assistant Dean of Special Collections and the Gallery. She holds a PhD in Germanic Languages from Columbia University, and an MA in Comparative Literature from University of Texas at Austin, as well as being an archivist certified by the SAA. In her previous role she served as Project Manager for the YIVO Vilna Collections Project, a co-operative endeavor between the YIVO Institute in New York and the National Library of Lithuania to digitally reunite YIVO’s pre-war archive. She has published several translations, as well as articles about literature, translation, and teaching archival skills.