My twenties were pretty nomadic — after graduation I lived in London, Seattle, Chicago, and Brooklyn before I finally decided I wanted to be an archivist when I grew up (every child's dream, right?). I went to UW-Milwaukee to get my MA in history and archives administration, and spent the summer after my first year of grad school interning in San Francisco. After I got my degree in 2000, I came back to Seattle, where I landed a job I ended up hating. I stuck it out there until getting a great job at a history museum, where I stayed for four years. This past April I took a new position at the municipal archives, where I deal with city records, photographs, films, maps, and the researchers who use them. The job is cool, Seattle feels like home, and life is good.

My Mac Memories: Dayton House summer, obsessive SPO-ing, the dorm carpet imprinted with an iron burn, canoeing on the St. Croix, blossoming trees outside Wallace, and the Party Gator.

I recently moved (back) to New Hampshire to teach at Proctor Academy's Mountain Classroom — an expedition-based interdisciplinary high school program. Hoping I can miss graduation to get out to the reunion at Mac!