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community, Evangelestia-Dougherty was an active figure in the community archives movement. Through programming, education, and fundraising such as the BMRC Andrew W. Mellon Consortial Initiative in which she first conceptualized the "Second Space Initiative" and the BMRC CLIR Color Curtain Processing
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In October 2021 Evangelestia-Dougherty was announced as the new director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, the first director to oversee the newly merged libraries and archives. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives comprises 21 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution
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education and has worked to promote feminist bibliographies. Evangelestia-Dougherty's work administering African American collections and around the concept of "second space" (community-based organizations and individuals with collections focused on non-traditional subject matter and formats
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from 2007 to 2013 and teaching a course titled "Developing and Administering Ethnic and Cultural Heritage Collections" at the California Rare Book School, where she also serves on the advisory committee. She is the 2021-2022 Director at Large for Digital Scriptorium, a consortium of American
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as an undergraduate. She was inspired by her experience researching for a high school history fair and by her supervisors, law librarian Tobin Sparling and Chicago Public Library senior archivist Beverly Cook to attend library school. Evangelestia-Dougherty attended
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is an American librarian and administrator. An archives and special collections expert, Evangelestia-Dougherty was the executive director of the Chicago-based Black Metropolis Research Consortium from 2011 to 2013 and the director of collections and services at the
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In 2007 she began working as the consulting archivist for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC), a collaborative effort between twelve libraries and museums in Chicago dedicated to Black history, founded by Danielle Allen and hosted at the
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in 2019 as an associate university librarian. In that role she created Cornell Rare and Distinctive Collections (RAD), a series of initiatives and programs designed to create a research hub for greater use of the university's unique collections.
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Project, she highlighted Black collections in Chicago, making them more accessible to the public. Her work at the Black Metropolis Research Consortium contributed to the organization earning the Distinguished Service Award from the
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libraries and museums providing access to collections of pre-modern manuscripts, as well as serving on the board of trustees of the American Printing History Association.
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She is also a 2004 graduate of the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups.
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for her master's degree, specializing in rare books, archives, and preservation management and studying under archivist
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Evangelestia-Dougherty began her professional career with a series of archival assistant positions, including at
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museums, with 3 million volumes, 44,000 cubic feet of archival materials, and 137 staff members.
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pertaining to African Americans) has inspired other archivists working with Black collections.
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She has taught in several organizations, including teaching as an adjunct professor at
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Powell, Chaitra; Smith, Holly; Murrain, Shanee'; Hearn, Skyla (November 29, 2018).
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degree in 2003. While studying at Simmons, she worked as an archival fellow at the
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served as a refuge during her youth, providing comfort and knowledge. She attended
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Evangelestia-Dougherty is a Food Allergy Awareness Advocate through
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KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies
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from 2013 to 2015. She became the first director of the combined
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She took on the role of director of collections and services at
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She is an advocate for the use of primary source literacy in
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February 2022 interview with Evangelestia-Dougherty
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Chicago
American
University of Houston
Simmons College
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
West Side of Chicago
Chicago Public Library
Von Steuben Metropolitan High School
University of Houston
DePaul University College of Law
South Texas College of Law Houston
Simmons College
Jeannette Bastian
Master of Library Science
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Yale University Library
Princeton University Library
Whitney Museum of American Art
Harvard University Herbaria
Columbia University Libraries
University of Chicago
LGBTQ
Chicago area
Society of American Archivists
New York Public Library
Cornell University Library
Dominican University

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