Preservation Week Honorary Chair: Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty in conversation with Sherry Williams
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Description: Please join us for a conversation with Honorary Chair of Preservation Week, Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty in conversation with Sherry Williams.
Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty is an American librarian, curator, educator and cultural heritage administrator. She most recently was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of Visual Arts for the City of Chicago in 2024 and is the former director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington, DC. With extensive experience across academic, public and museum library sectors Evangelestia-Dougherty previously served as Associate University Librarian for Rare and Distinctive Collections at Cornell University, Director of Collections and Services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at New York Public Library, and Executive Director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium at the University of Chicago. A respected leader in the library and museum community, Evangelestia-Dougherty concurrently teaches cultural heritage administration at California Rare Book School at the University of California Los Angeles and serves as a member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Caxton Club. Evanglestia-Dougherty holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons University, where she studied archives, collective memory and historic and cultural documentation and preservation. For Evangelestia-Dougherty’s distinguished service and contributions to the profession, she received an honorary doctorate of library and information science from Simmons University in 2023.
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