Women's Collections Section 2021 Midterm Ballot

Meet our wonderful slate of candidates for the 2021 WCS Midterm election! The individual receiving the most votes will serve as a Co-Vice Chair during 2021-2022 and as Co-Chair of the section in 2022-2023.

Leanna Barcelona

Biography

Leanna Barcelona is currently an Assistant Professor and University Archivist at the University of Illinois Chicago. Previously, she served as the University Archivist at Baylor University in Waco, TX. She became a Certified Archivist in 2018 and hold the SAA Digital Archives Specialist Certificate. She earned her MLIS with a Certificate in Special Collections as well as a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As a graduate student, she served as a graduate assistant in the Student Life and Culture Archives as well as the research assistant for the Office of the Provost’s Gender Equity Council.

Statement of Interest

Archivists have the power to bring awareness and honor stories of others through policy and practice, but there are still hidden stories within every institution. Marginalized voices are not always uplifted and can become obscured through collection titles, subject headings, lack of proper description, or being overlooked when acquiring new collections. Through good policy, intentional collection development and processing, archivists can pivot towards better access to women’s stories and work together to share these stories widely with researchers. This is something that is important to me as a person and in my profession, and it is the reason why I am interested in serving the Women’s Collections Section in this capacity. This section strives to continue down the path towards more discoverability of women’s collections and I would love to be a part of that.

Anna Tunnicliff

Biography 

I’ve been the Processing Archivist at the Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA) in Iowa City, Iowa since 2018. Prior to that, I was a graduate assistant at the Iowa Women’s Archives for three years. Along with processing new collections, I promote them on our repository’s social media, and connect them to researchers via instruction and reference. I received an MLIS from the University of Iowa in 2018 along with a Certificate in Book Studies from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Currently, I’m a member of the Program Committee of the Midwest Archives Conference and of SAA’s Privacy & Confidentiality section, where I recently led a virtual summer reading group. In all my work, I take great pleasure in promoting underrepresented voices in the Archives and connecting their papers to students and researchers.

Statement of Interest 

When I started working at the Iowa Women’s Archives, I encountered something I didn’t know I’d been missing: historical collections centering women’s lives and contributions. Although I’d long considered myself a feminist, I had somehow internalized the feeling that women’s history was less than a crucial part of our common story. Encountering purposefully curated and described women’s collections I felt affirmed and freed from this ingrained notion that women’s history was extra or optional. When I arrange and describe collections at the Iowa Women’s Archives, I feel I am helping to pass this feeling on to other researchers. It would be an honor to help lead the Women’s Collections Section as we continue the necessary work of filling the historical gender gap within archival sources and strive to make available the papers of women from all races, ethnicities, classes, and sexualities.