M.S.L.S. Columbia University, specializing in archives.
Has supervised American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Library Special Collections since 1998. In 2002, was named Museum Archivist to coordinate with those individuals who manage the archives in the Museum’s Scientific Department.

Originally began working at AMNH in late 1987. After graduating from Columbia, worked for four years as Assistant Museum Librarian at the Goldwater Library in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, during which time also curated a major temporary archival photographic exhibition called “Drawing Shadows to Stone: Photographing North Pacific Peoples (1897-1903) at AMNH before returning there in 1998. This exhibition reversed the usual norm by using museum object to illustrate the photographs which were the focus of the exhibition.