NDSA is happy to announce the 2025 slate of Coordinating Committee (CC) candidates!

The CC is dedicated to ensuring a strategic direction for NDSA, to the advancement of NDSA activities to achieve community goals, and to further communication among digital preservation professionals and NDSA member organizations. The CC is responsible for reviewing and approving NDSA membership applications and publications; updating eligibility standards for membership in the alliance, and other strategic documents; engaging with stakeholders in the community; and working to enroll new members committed to our core mission.

  • Elections will begin on Tuesday, September 23rd
  • Each successful candidate will serve a three-year term.
  • Ballots will be sent to NDSA membership on the morning of September 23rd.
  • Each member institution may cast one ballot
  • Each ballot can vote to elect up to three (3) CC members

The 2025 NDSA Coordinating Committee Member Nominees are:

Jacqueline Devereaux Asaro

I am the first born-digital archivist in my special collections and university archives! Transitioning from the analog processing world to the digital a year ago, I would like to build more community and advocate as a new practitioner in the profession. I would be excited to participate on the coordinating committee! By joining the committee, I hope to coordinate with other professionals to learn more about digital preservation and promote best practices. I look forward to growing this vibrant community through coordination with the interest groups, participating in the annual conference, and critically formulating principles for the future.

John Dewees

I’ve had the unique privilege of serving as one of the co-chairs for the NDSA Digital Preservation conference this year and the experience has allowed me to see just how many utterly dedicated and generous folks are selflessly working to keep NDSA moving forward and just how much work that proposition is. I’m throwing my hat in the ring as a potential first time CC member to help act with care to steward the organization and provide support to the folks who put so much work into keeping things going. I have worked in the LAM space for 20 years, specifically working in digital preservation focused areas for the past 8, and have always sought to be active within the professional service arenas that were available, be they at the local, state, or national level. I hope my action-oriented approach to service work, strong organizational and communication skills, and sense of care for our increasingly fragile cultural memory community could be a boon to the NDSA Coordinating Committee.

https://johndewees.com/

Rebecca Frank

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, affiliated with ICPSR and the Einstein Center Digital Future in Berlin, Germany. My experiences across academic institutions in the US and Germany have given me skills for building and sustaining collaborative communities that span borders and institutions. I’ve seen firsthand how knowledge exchange and shared expertise advance both theory and practice in our field. My research on risk, trust, and standards has shown me the critical importance of identifying and addressing common challenges our field faces in promoting best practices and building capacity for digital preservation. Working with individuals and organizations from different cultural contexts has taught me to listen carefully to diverse stakeholder groups. I am passionate about creating opportunities for people to develop skills and advance careers in digital stewardship and I do this foremost through my work as an educator. At a time when our institutions face numerous challenges and threats, the NDSA represents a strong and vital voice for the preservation and stewardship of digital information. As someone who has benefitted from the work of NDSA and its members, I look forward to contributing to that mission.

https://www.si.umich.edu/people/rebecca-frank

https://rebeccadfrank.com/

Lauren Goodley

I earned an MSIS from UT Austin in 2008. I have been a Certified Archivist since 2011, and have kept my DAS certificate current since 2014. I am active in service and presentations at the Society of Southwest Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, and the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. I currently serve on the NDSA Fixity Survey Working Group, and previously on the NDSA Excellence Awards, from 2019-2021.

As the digital archivist at a literary manuscript collection, I attend to many tasks, including but not limited to preservation actions. As a “lone” digital archivist at a smaller institution, I bring that perspective to my work with NDSA and other organizations. I am passionate about ensuring that these institutions are represented and their needs taken into account. I would love the opportunity to bring this perspective and what I’ve learned from NDSA to the CC, and contribute to the leadership, direction, and mission of NDSA.

https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2154385

Reinhardt Hartzenberg

Reinhardt Hartzenberg heads the Digitisation and Data Preservation Unit at the KwaZulu-Natal Archives and Records Service in South Africa. He leads a dynamic, youthful team in establishing the province’s digitisation programme, driven by his deep passion for heritage preservation and a commitment to building a more robust framework for preserving and sharing the province’s rich heritage. With over two decades of experience in the digitisation, heritage, and archives sector, he has developed expertise in analogue-to-digital conversion, digital asset management, metadata structuring, and long-term preservation strategies. His contributions extend beyond institutional practice to the broader archival community, where he actively promotes digital preservation standards, builds professional networks, and contributes to policy development that strengthens the management of archival records across South Africa. He is currently co-ordinating the Isivivane SoLwazi - Digitisation Dialogue Coalition, which aims to create a technical forum for digitisation on the African continent.

Holding a Master’s degree in Photography, he has leveraged this foundation to integrate visual culture with archival preservation, advancing innovative approaches to digital access and sustainability.

https://isddc.org.za/#home

Matthew McEniry

Matt McEniry is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at Texas Tech University Libraries. The Lab provides digital preservation, digitization, and data management services for the TTU campus community. Matt started his service at NDSA on the Innovation Working Group, including assisting with the Innovation Awards, from 2013 to 2015. In 2023, he joined the Excellence Awards Working Group (EAWG) as a co-chair for a three-year term. He also was the EAWG liaison and member of the 2023 DigiPres Planning Committee. Additionally, Matt has served on a number of other NDSA groups such as the Strategy Team (to help update NDSA’s Foundational Strategy), Scenario Planning (service related), Transition Planning (fundraising and plans for transitioning from CLIR to NISO), Fixity Survey Working Group (Co-Chair), and Leadership/Co-Chair groups. He has worked with numerous CC members while on these groups and learned from the professionalism and passion for securing the future of digital stewardship. As a member of the Coordinating Committee, Matt will bring his broad knowledge of the field of digital stewardship and past experiences with NDSA to help further the strategic goals of NDSA as a leader in digital preservation during the time of transition and into its new challenges.

Este Pope

Este is a librarian and technology leader with over two decades of experience in academic libraries and digital initiatives. Her professional experiences include overseeing large-scale projects, managing diverse teams, and fostering inclusive and innovative environments. She has worked for Dartmouth Libraries since 2021 and is currently the Head of the Digital Library Technologies Group. She has a strong interest in digital preservation, deriving from her experience supporting digital infrastructure for libraries, archives, and cultural heritage digital materials. She brings strategic, adaptive, and creative lenses to her work and has extensive experience working collaboratively, including open source organizations such as Fedora and Islandora. Over the past few years, she has had the opportunity to participate in the 2023 NDSA Storage Infrastructure Survey Working Group and the Infrastructure Interest Group. She would like to contribute more to the organization. She has worked in a variety of academic library settings, serving in roles that support library systems, instruction, digital collections, digital humanities, and online learning. She holds a BA from the University of Connecticut, an MA from Boston College, and an MLIS from Simmons University. She is completing an EdD in Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies from Bay Path University.

Danielle Taylor

Danielle Taylor is the Digital Preservation Librarian at Indiana University Libraries. She is responsible for assessing and meeting the digital preservation needs of various library departments. She plays a lead role in establishing a cohesive digital preservation program and is manager of the Born-Digital Preservation Lab. Prior to joining IU Libraries in the Digital Collections Services department, she was the Digital Initiatives & Preservation Archivist at the Filson Historical Society (Louisville, KY), Preservation Specialist with the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Project Director for the Digital POWRR Project, and Curator of Manuscripts at the Regional History Center & University Archives at Northern Illinois University. She holds a BA in history from Saint Mary’s College (IN) and an MA-LIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.