Nearly 25 years spent
keeping the record.

Endangered Collections was founded on a simple, uncomfortable truth: most organizations believe that if a collection is in a box, it’s safe. It usually isn’t. A career spanning curatorial work, archival practice, and higher education administration has meant sitting on both sides of that problem, as the person raising the alarm, and as the administrator deciding what gets funded… or not.

That work has included founding a center dedicated to fraternal collections and research, and building the first systemwide framework a major research university had ever used to govern its collections. It has also meant testing what technology can responsibly do for access, including augmented and virtual reality, when the physical object is too fragile, too far away, or already gone.

Endangered Collections carries that same standard into independent practice: assessment before promises, governance before growth, and preservation measured by whether a collection can actually be used, not just whether it’s off the floor.