Sadie

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Name

Sadie

Professional Information

Employer Name

The Evergreen State College
Job Title

Oral History Project Manager
Job Description

My work involves the management and curation of oral history collections, and has included the building of the Gateways Oral History collection from the ground up. This collection documents one of the first Inside-Out prison education programs in the country. My work spans from writing interview questions to conducting the interviews themselves, it also includes transcribing, editing, audio sampling, and making the material accessible to the public. I create finding aids and provide descriptions for existing collections, along with curating narrative samples from the interviews.
Scholarly and Professional Interests

oral history academic librarianship describing archives archival research academic research oral histories

Favorites

Favorite Activities

Roller skating, dog walks, Cajun food, ice hockey, reading, watercolours, journaling, adventure, travel
Favorite TV Shows

The Good Lord Bird, Watchmen, The Boulet Brother’s Dragula
Favorite Movies

9 to 5, Parid is Burning, Hellzapoppin’, Howl’s Moving Castle, Nausicaä: Valley of the Wind
Favorite Music

Sade, Dorothy Ashby, Talking Heads, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, Blitz, Sisters of Mercy
Favorite Quotes

“All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change, god is change.” – Earthseed: The Books of the Living

(Butler, O. E. (1993). Parable of the Sower. Four Walls Eight Windows.)
Favorite Books
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
  • Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • Norte by Edmundo Paz Soldán
  • Tales of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Furious Hours by Casey Cep
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Learning Experiences and Goals

Most Memorable Learning Experience

The summer of my senior year of undergrad I received a full scholarship to Paris, France to study the History of the Bibliothèque, wherein I visited several notable libraries and wrote a research paper about the library as the last third space. During the same summer I was invited to present my capstone project at the Critical Edge Alliance Conference at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, where I was able to sit in on many incredible presentations from my peers and engage in collaborative group work with learners from across the globe.
Online Learning

The convenience of online learning cannot be stressed enough. The accessibility created through online platforms has changed the way not only our academic institutions work, but has entirely shaped the way the workforce, business, bureaucracy, and society at large operate. To increase access to this incredible resource it is imperative that we continue to elevate our user interfaces in order to establish ease in navigation, that we push for rural broadband access, and that we make readily available digital literacy workshops to folks less exposed to technology in order to truly put the world at our fingertips.
Learning Goals

I hope to broaden my understanding of qualitative and quantitive research, as well as to delve further into best practices of different organizational methodologies, including furthering my knowledge of the accessioning process as a whole. I also look forward to adding to the depth and breadth of my interest and work in oral histories, along with curation methods such as digitization and restoration.