Our Team

Bender’s career as a moving image and audio archivist grew out of her work as a documentary archival producer, work that was continually impeded by a lack of access to local television news of She recently founded the News Media Archive of Rhode Island to collect, preserve, and provide public access to the state’s audiovisual news heritage

The founder of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image , Frick has worked in the media preservation community at such organizations as the Library of Congress, Warner Bros., AMC Networks, and the National Archives. She also served as an Associate Professor in the Radio-TV-Film Department at The University of Texas at Austin for over fifteen years

One of the co-founders of the Archival Producers Alliance , Jenkins has spent over fifteen years working on documentary films from development to delivery and is a Governor of the Television Academy’s Documentary Peer Group. Jenkins has worked with Ken Burns and Florentine films since 2010 on such series as Muhammad Ali and The Central Park Five. 

Petrucelli has worked in documentary films for over twenty years and is a co-founder of both Sub-Basement Archival and the Archival Producers Alliance. In addition to her award-winning work as archival researcher on such films as Dolores and Crip Camp, Petrucelli worked in the documentary division at Lucasfilm for several years.

President and Co-CEO of Free Press . Aaron works in Washington, D.C. and speaks often to policymakers, the press, and the public on media and technology issues. He has written for The Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, The Philadelphia Inquirer amongst many more.

With over thirty years of experience in moving image preservation, Abolins is Director of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries where she manages a collection of over 350,000 analog audiovisual items and over 200,000 digital files. 

Executive Director of Boston’s Social Law Library, Courtney is both a lawyer and librarian dedicated to issues of copyright, access, and preservation. He recently served as Harvard Library’s Director of Copyright and Information Policy and is a co-founder of Library Futures , which defends the public’s right to information.

Emmy award-winning documentary producer El-Amin has worked for over twenty years on such films as The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, College Behind Bars and, most recently, The American Revolution. El-Amin holds degrees in Anthropology and Media Studies from Rutgers University and The New School University.

A 2026-27 Knight-Wallace Fellow working on “Creating a Framework for News Archiving and Saving the History of Television News,” Fraser is a three-time National Emmy winner and has worked as a local and national television news producer and bureau chief in numerous cities across the United States.

From 2022-2026, Forsberg served as the Curator of Audiovisual Media at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives and now teaches for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was the technical architect of the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s XFR STN exhibition for which he won an Innovation Award for digital stewardship from the Library of Congress.

Director of Library Services and Operations at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, Rawson researches and teaches on data curation in the humanities and computational text analysis. She also served as Humanities Librarian for English at Emory University and the Managing Editor of Southern Spaces.