Meet Your Inclusion and Diversity Committee!

Susanna Coit (she/her), is the 2024-2025 IDC chair. She is the Archivist and Research Library Assistant at Perkins School for the Blind. She is committed to making archives, as a profession and resource, accessible to everyone. She has a BA in Afro-American Studies from Smith College and an MLIS in Archives from Simmons College.

Benny Bauer (she/they) has served on the IDC for the past two years, and now is serving as Vice chair/Chair-elect. They are the Digital Media Librarian at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. They earned their MLIS at University of Maryland, College Park, specializing in Archives and Digital Curation. They have worked several contract positions, including one as Archives Technician at Smithsonian Channel, one on the NEH-funded Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, and one as Digitization Specialist at the National Agricultural Library.

Gladys Garcia (she/her/hers/ella) is serving a two-year term (2023-2025) as a member of the IDC. As a Latiné member of the LGBTQIA+ community, she is passionate about diverse representation in the LIS field and is looking forward to bringing her perspective and experiences to the IDC at NEA. She is an Archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. She has previously worked with WITNESS, an international human rights focused non-profit, as a Metadata Librarian Consultant on re-tagging assets for their online library and creating documentation for uploading and updating digital library assets. She has completed archival internships with the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Chinese Historical society of Southern California, and California State University, Los Angeles. She holds a MSI degree from the University of Michigan and a dual BA in Latin American and Asian American Studies from California State University, Los Angeles.

Caro Langenbucher is a Processing Specialist at Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College, with previous experience in academic and museum archives. They hold master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University, and a bachelor’s in English from Brandeis University. At Rauner Library, they co-lead a working group on contextualizing harmful content and reparative archival description as well as the library DEI reading group.

Mollie Metevier she/her) is serving a one year term as a member of the IDC. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University. She is particularly interested in inclusivity in archives, as she believes that empathy grows when we are open to working with those who are different from us. Mollie holds a Certificate in School Librarianship from St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minn); a MLIS from Simmons University (Boston, Mass) and a BA in Sociology from Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass). She has held a variety of teaching and archives positions across the country for the past 20 years.

Clarrie Scholtz (she/they) is serving a one-year term (2024-2025) as a member of the IDC. Clarrie is a Project Archivist at Yale University, working on re-processing a collection of architectural drawings and maps of Yale's buildings and grounds. She has a B.A. in Art History from Cornell University and an MLIS with a concentration in Cultural Heritage Informatics from Simmons University. Clarrie previously worked at Columbia University Libraries, the Dia Art Foundation, and the ECF Art Centers in Los Angeles. Clarrie is an artist.