Council Exemplary Service Award: Jessica (Jess) Farrell

Society of American Archivists
Council Exemplary Service Award
Honoring

JESSICA FARRELL

WHEREAS, Jessica (Jess) Farrell has demonstrated exceptional service to the archives profession and the Society of American Archivists; and 
  
WHEREAS, Jessica Farrell chaired SAA’s Committee on Public Policy between 2023–2025, including co-organizing Archives on the Hill in 2023 and serving as a member from 2020–2026, chaired SAA’s Electronic Records Section from 2017–2020, co-founded the Digital Library Federation’s Born-Digital Access Working Group in 2017, and chaired the New England Archivists Financial Planning Committee from 2022–2025; and

WHEREAS, Jessica Farrell’s active engagement with Senator Ed Markey’s office as part of Archives on the Hill helped bring forward the introduction of important legislation for archival records known as the Public Archives Resiliency Act introduced in the 118th Congress; and 

WHEREAS, Jessica Farrell is an author, educator, and advocate for the profession, having edited Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration. She raised the profile of archivists with audiences beyond the archival profession with her 2023 editorial in Nature, contributed to the SAA Issue Brief on Judiciary Records, facilitated the Software Preservation Network + BitCurator Consortium communities of practice from 2019–2024, and designed and continues to lead anti-oppressive facilitation workshops for archival practitioners;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Jessica Farrell be honored with the Council Exemplary Service Award for her many years of archival advocacy.