ORAL HISTORY
My oral history work was built upon a sturdy foundation of documentary filmmaking and archival work. I first fell in love with the craft while traveling with the Wexler Oral History Project as their videographer, audio engineer, and photographer. Those four years provided an amazing opportunity to witness a vast array of interviews all across the continent. I then extended into other oral history projects, while receiving an oral history certification through Baylor University. I’ve continued to pursue ongoing OHMA / Columbia Oral History trainings, such as “The NYC Trans Oral History Project and Rethinking Oral History Methodology,” “Land Back! The Importance of Oral History in First Nation Land Claims Cases,” “Oral History: A Working Praxis of Critical Care and Relationship-Building,” and “Equity Budgeting: Budgets for Economic Justice.”
Over the expanse of my career I have also managed four major digital archives. From 2004-2008 I edited, digitized, and organized digital programming content for North Andover Community Access. From 2011-2015 I served as an editor, media manager, database technician, archivist, and general go-to post-production manager for Compass Light Productions. We worked out of a 3 Suite, RAID based, DROBO backed system, connected to an internal server, all of which I helped create, digitize, manage and maintain. I also digitized and archived the entirety of their 20+ year collection of analogue footage and content. From 2015-2023 I served as the video editor and oversaw the digitization of all filmed Camden Conferences, managing the entirety of the conference’s extensive history of digital media and video archive, making the conference free and available to the public. I now work with the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project as their video editor and oral history archives manager, providing on-site technical support for the ongoing processing of the Wexler Oral History Project’s rapidly expanding digital collection of in-depth oral history interviews about Yiddish language and culture and managing on-site and off-site storage and back-ups of the large and expanding digital video archive to ensure long-term preservation and access.
The ways I can help within an oral history process is through videography, photography, sound recording, editing video and audio, photo and artifact digitizing and retouching, web design, and archive management.
I’d love to help bring your oral history project to life!
