PROFESSIONAL AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES (SELECTION)

Conference Committee, Missouri Association for Museums and Archives, “The Public Trust: Cultural Institutions in Times of Conflict and Change,” 2024.

Board, Watkins Mill Association, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, 2024.

Researcher, archivist, curator, script editor and interviewee on documentary, Legacy of Light: The Journey of Temple Beth Zion and Jewish Buffalo, 2023.

Religious History Committee, American Association for State and Local History, 2023.

Preservation Committee, Western New York Library Resource Council, 2023.

William G. Pomeroy Foundation, Historic Marker Grant Program, Awarded to Cofeld Museum, 2022.

Buffalo State College, Museum Studies, MA, Thesis Reader, 2021.

Member, Museum Committee, Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, NY., 2018-ongoing.

Local Arrangements Committee, Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Buffalo, NY., 2016-2017.

Archival History Section Publication Working Group, Society of the American Archivists, 2016.

Field Reviewer, Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York, 2016-2023.

Co-Chair, Preservation Committee, Western New York Library Resource Council, 2015-2016.

Board Member, New York Archives Conference and member of 3 subcommittees, 2014-2017.

Member, Preservation Committee, Western New York Resource Council, Buffalo, NY, 2013-2017.

Member of Steering Committee for Oral History Section, Society of the American Archivists, 2010-2012.

Conference Papers Evaluator, National Coalition for Independent Scholars, 2008.

Member of Editorial Board and Blind Reviewer, Women in Judaism Journal, 2005-ongoing.

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCES

Over the last fifteen years I have served as a chair and/or presenter for conferences organized by the Mid Atlantic Regional Archives, the Society of American Archivists, the New York Archives Conference, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Southern Conference on Women’s History, the Association for Jewish Studies, the British Association of Jewish Studies, and the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Tampa, FL.

PUBLIC LECTURES

During the past decade I have given more than seventy public lectures in a variety of settings including churches, synagogues, schools, community centers, veterans groups, and women’s groups, library and archives groups, historical associations, and genealogical organizations.