Deidre Dinnigan
President
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Deidre Dinnigan is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), and a longstanding member of the Archivist Round Table (ART). Deidre has served on the ART Board of Directors as Vice President (2018); President (2019); and Director of Programming (2021-2023). She holds a Masters of Arts from New York University and a Masters in Libraries and Information Science (with a specialization in Archives and Special Collections) from The Pratt Institute. Deidre is the Owner/CEO of ForKeeps Inc. which provides a range of heritage services to institutions and private clients. Since founding her company in 2016, Deidre has worked with a diverse clientele from both the profit and nonprofit sectors including hotels, hospitals, theaters, churches, restaurants, and academic institutions to help them harness, safeguard, and share their histories.

Ann Bell
Vice President
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Ann Bell is an art historian who holds an MA from the Bard Graduate Center and will complete
an MLIS at Pratt Institute in Spring 2025. She was the director of the prestigious Morgan Book
Project at the Morgan Library & Museum and has held faculty positions at Parson’s School of
Design, the New York School of Interior Design, Pratt Institute, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
She recently shifted to curatorial work with research concentrations in rare books and artist
archives and is also pursuing a professional certificate in digital photography at the New School.

Kimberly Springer
Director of Advocacy
advocacy@nycarchivists.org

Kimberly Springer (MSI, PhD) is a Privacy Advocate with the Library Freedom Project and
curator for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University. Her research and praxis center on
curatorial ethics, archives, privacy, and archival producing for film and TV. Her publications
include Living for the Revolution, Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 (2005), Still Lifting,
Still Climbing: African-American Women’s Contemporary Activism (1999), Stories of Oprah: the
Oprahfication of American Culture (2010), and numerous journal articles including practical case
studies for the Society of American Archivists and Oral History Review.

Anton Sherin
Secretary
secretary@nycarchivists.org

Anton Sherin (He/Him/His) is the Associate Archivist for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Library and Archives. His responsibilities there include managing retention of the institution's records, overseeing processing activities, and building workflows for digital preservation. He holds an MSLIS from St. John's University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of design. Prior to his career in information science, Anton worked in museums and galleries as an art preparator and a fabricator. His interests include designing software solutions for automating archival workflows and building archival communities of practice.

Michael Andrec
Treasurer
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Michael Andrec has been the lone arranger at the Ukrainian History and Education Center (UkrHEC.org) in Somerset, NJ since 2010, where he has been responsible for preserving and making accessible hundreds of legacy and recently acquired collections, as well as exhibition curation, digitization of audio and paper-based archives, outreach, and reference services. Since 2021 he has also been an archives consultant for the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York, NY (shevchenko.org). He completed the Modern Archives Institute at the National Archives and Records Administration and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. He served as Treasurer of the Archivists Round Table from 2015 to 2017. In 2022, Michael and the UHEC received the MARAC New Jersey Caucus Innovative Archives Award for his rapid shift from archival duties to education and advocacy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Samantha Rowe
Director of Programming
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Samantha Rowe is an archivist and art historian, and the Digital Archivist and Research Associate of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. (WPI), a non-profit foundation dedicated to the publication of digital catalogues raisonnés and archival material that support research in art history. Her role is to prepare, describe, arrange, and conduct item-level processing of digital archival materials using the WPI’s relational database to provide free public access to over 50,000 art historical resources and research materials on its growing digital platform, which she helped develop with an international team of researchers, developers, and UI/UX designers. In addition to her current role, she's held positions at the Museum of Modern Art; Archival Collections Management at New York University, Division of Libraries; and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists for Oxford University Press. Her research is grounded in the investigation of the intersections of art and archives. She holds an MSLIS from Long Island University and MA in History of Art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Nicole Font
Director of Communications 
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Nicole Font, MA [she/her] is the Shelby White and Leon Levy processing archivist at the Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Public Library. She received her MA in Archives and Public History from New York University in 2022 and has worked on projects for the American Song Archives and the New-York Historical Society. She's currently on the programming committee for the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York and the social media coordinator for the Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Section of the Society of American Archivists.

Herbert Durán
Director of Education
education@nycarchivists.org

Herbert Duran is the Archivist at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) where handles
all aspects of the archives, from processing collections to participating in public programming
and instructional sessions. Herbert is a former member of the A.R.T. Programming Committee,
where he organized visits to places like The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
and coordinated virtual webinars with the film restoration and distribution company Vinegar
Syndrome. Prior to becoming an archivist, Herbert was a case worker at Housing Works, where
he helped NYC residents find housing and obtain social benefits and entitlements. He holds a
Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute.

Cara Dellatte
Director of Membership 
membership@nycarchivists.org

Cara Dellatte is currently a Reference Archivist in the Rare Books and
Manuscripts division at the New York Public Library. Cara is dedicated to the notion that
accessibility and sharing of knowledge can change society for the better and has a wealth of
experience putting that into practice. For the past two years, she has co-chaired the NYPL's
Public Services Council, a role which has allowed her to institute new paradigms of
communication and collaboration across NYPL's research divisions. Most recently, she planned a
research-library-wide conference: "Out of the Box: Innovation, Adaptation and Collaboration at
NYPL Research Libraries, which showcased the ingenuity of NYPL staff and created space for
knowledge-sharing